{"id":246577,"date":"2026-10-08T02:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-challenges-liberia-to-give-anti-corruption-laws-teeth\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T02:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:30:15","slug":"liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-challenges-liberia-to-give-anti-corruption-laws-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-challenges-liberia-to-give-anti-corruption-laws-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ex &#8211; President Sirleaf Challenges Liberia to Give Anti-Corruption Laws Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has challenged Liberia to move beyond passing anti-corruption laws and establishing integrity institutions, urging the country to give those laws &#8220;teeth&#8221; by ensuring that violations lead to investigations, prosecution and meaningful consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking Tuesday during the Governance Commission&#8217;s Month of Good Governance symposium in Monrovia, Sirleaf said Liberia&#8217;s long-running struggle with corruption demonstrates that laws and institutions alone cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610070559.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>Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has challenged Liberia to move beyond passing anti-corruption laws and establishing integrity institutions, urging the country to give those laws &#8220;teeth&#8221; by ensuring that violations lead to investigations, prosecution and meaningful consequences. Speaking Tuesday during the Governance Commission&#8217;s Month of Good Governance symposium in Monrovia, Sirleaf said Liberia&#8217;s long-running struggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681855:473647afee6a5a34a0c73e20d6dbf19c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,10365,6977,7712,5040,4712,1107,257,2450,6912,254,30510],"class_list":["post-246577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anticorruption","tag-challenges","tag-give","tag-laws","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-sirleaf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teeth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681855:473647afee6a5a34a0c73e20d6dbf19c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246577","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=246577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}