{"id":247596,"date":"2026-10-19T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-imf-urges-african-govts-to-shield-vulnerable-citizens-from-economic-shocks\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:00:09","slug":"liberia-imf-urges-african-govts-to-shield-vulnerable-citizens-from-economic-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-imf-urges-african-govts-to-shield-vulnerable-citizens-from-economic-shocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: IMF Urges African Govts to Shield Vulnerable Citizens From Economic Shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged African governments to strengthen measures to protect vulnerable citizens from economic shocks, warning that global uncertainties, energy supply disruptions and declining foreign aid could place additional pressure on households and economies across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Speaking during the IMF&#8217;s annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, Zeine Zeidane, Director of the IMF&#8217;s African Department, emphasized the need for governments to balance economic stability&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610190425.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>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged African governments to strengthen measures to protect vulnerable citizens from economic shocks, warning that global uncertainties, energy supply disruptions and declining foreign aid could place additional pressure on households and economies across the continent. Speaking during the IMF&#8217;s annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, Zeine Zeidane, Director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247597,"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\/00601844:3d05f3c2c4e1fdbd2210629f644501df:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4380,7604,3576,9837,1283,4712,1107,257,11920,16155,254,6810,5143],"class_list":["post-247596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-citizens","tag-economic","tag-govts","tag-imf","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-shield","tag-shocks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-vulnerable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601844:3d05f3c2c4e1fdbd2210629f644501df:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247596","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=247596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}