{"id":249351,"date":"2026-11-07T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-threatens-to-demolish-abandoned-buildings\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:30:10","slug":"liberia-govt-threatens-to-demolish-abandoned-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-threatens-to-demolish-abandoned-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Govt Threatens to Demolish Abandoned Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>MONROVIA, November 5, 2026:<\/strong> The Government of Liberia has announced plans to demolish or compulsorily acquire abandoned buildings across Monrovia, warning property owners of monthly fines of US$500 for failing to rehabilitate neglected structures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Public Works Minister Roland Lafayette Giddings disclosed that the measures are contained in new regulations approved by Cabinet to strengthen urban planning, improve sanitation, and address the growing number of abandoned buildings, particularly in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060301.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, November 5, 2026: The Government of Liberia has announced plans to demolish or compulsorily acquire abandoned buildings across Monrovia, warning property owners of monthly fines of US$500 for failing to rehabilitate neglected structures. Public Works Minister Roland Lafayette Giddings disclosed that the measures are contained in new regulations approved by Cabinet to strengthen urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249352,"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":[10480,258,256,23276,21426,4357,4712,1107,257,254,10413],"class_list":["post-249351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abandoned","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buildings","tag-demolish","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens"],"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\/249351","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=249351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}