{"id":243486,"date":"2026-09-06T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-a-government-under-pressure-why-were-liberias-justice-minister-and-solicitor-general-replaced-now\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:30:23","slug":"liberia-a-government-under-pressure-why-were-liberias-justice-minister-and-solicitor-general-replaced-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-a-government-under-pressure-why-were-liberias-justice-minister-and-solicitor-general-replaced-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: A Government Under Pressure &#8211; Why Were Liberia&#8217;s Justice Minister and Solicitor General Replaced Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">MONROVIA &#8212; The decision by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to replace Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Cllr. N. Oswald Tweh, and Solicitor General Cllr. Augustine C. Fayiah has immediately raised a larger question than the appointments themselves:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Why now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">On Wednesday, September 2, President Boakai replaced Tweh with Cllr. Betty M. Lamin-Blamo and named Cllr. Abrahim Boimah Sillah Sr. as Solicitor General. Tweh and Fayiah are being reassigned to other government positions. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040831.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROVIA &#8212; The decision by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to replace Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Cllr. N. Oswald Tweh, and Solicitor General Cllr. Augustine C. Fayiah has immediately raised a larger question than the appointments themselves: Why now? On Wednesday, September 2, President Boakai replaced Tweh with Cllr. Betty M. Lamin-Blamo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":243487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6768,6427,6852,4712,1107,8536,5941,257,15578,21978,29186,254],"class_list":["post-243486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-general","tag-government","tag-justice","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-pressure","tag-replaced","tag-solicitor","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}