{"id":250401,"date":"2026-11-14T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ministry-of-mines-energy-accused-of-aiding-illicit-mining\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T21:30:06","slug":"liberia-ministry-of-mines-energy-accused-of-aiding-illicit-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ministry-of-mines-energy-accused-of-aiding-illicit-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ministry of Mines &#038; Energy Accused of Aiding Illicit Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">MONROVIA \u2014 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s Protect Our Resources Taskforce inspected a Lower Montserrado County mining site scarred by deep pits and damaged creeks, where one company accused the Ministry of Mines and Energy of &#8220;aiding and abetting&#8221; illicit mining and another insisted its excavator was there only for exploration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Col. Abraham Kromah, the taskforce&#8217;s chairman, led a team of joint state security personnel to Ben Ben Town. A Liberian Investigator reporter who accompanied the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130263.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 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s Protect Our Resources Taskforce inspected a Lower Montserrado County mining site scarred by deep pits and damaged creeks, where one company accused the Ministry of Mines and Energy of &#8220;aiding and abetting&#8221; illicit mining and another insisted its excavator was there only for exploration. Col. Abraham Kromah, the taskforce&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250402,"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":[7083,258,256,28214,7424,9926,4712,1107,6856,6477,6857,257,254],"class_list":["post-250401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aiding","tag-energy","tag-illicit","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mines","tag-mining","tag-ministry","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\/250401","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=250401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}