{"id":250222,"date":"2026-11-13T19:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-dekpah-faces-two-challengers-as-chess-federation-heads-to-dec-26-27-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:30:35","slug":"liberia-dekpah-faces-two-challengers-as-chess-federation-heads-to-dec-26-27-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-dekpah-faces-two-challengers-as-chess-federation-heads-to-dec-26-27-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Dekpah Faces Two Challengers As Chess Federation Heads to Dec. 26-27 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">MONROVIA \u2014 Liberia Chess Federation President Gonkartee Dekpah will face two former federation officials in a three-way race for the presidency at the federation&#8217;s Dec. 26-27 General Assembly, as one challenger cites Liberia&#8217;s absence from three major international chess competitions and questions the federation&#8217;s financial management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The two-day assembly will be held at the federation&#8217;s headquarters in Sinkor and is expected to attract stakeholders from across Liberia&#8217;s chess community. Dekpah&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130510.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 \u2014 Liberia Chess Federation President Gonkartee Dekpah will face two former federation officials in a three-way race for the presidency at the federation&#8217;s Dec. 26-27 General Assembly, as one challenger cites Liberia&#8217;s absence from three major international chess competitions and questions the federation&#8217;s financial management. The two-day assembly will be held at the federation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250223,"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":[258,256,55845,14600,17207,55844,821,5080,7819,8879,4712,1107,257,254],"class_list":["post-250222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challengers","tag-chess","tag-dec","tag-dekpah","tag-elections","tag-faces","tag-federation","tag-heads","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","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\/250222","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=250222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}