{"id":420882,"date":"2023-09-28T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=420882"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:17:47","slug":"us-announces-visa-restrictions-for-those-undermining-democracy-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/us-announces-visa-restrictions-for-those-undermining-democracy-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces visa restrictions for those &#8216;undermining democracy&#8217; in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">WASHINGTON: &#8211; U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced visa restrictions for individuals who he said were &#8220;undermining democracy&#8221; in Liberia ahead of the country&#8217;s elections in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Blinken in a statement released by the U.S. State Department did not specify how many people were affected or identify them. The move restricts their ability to travel to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">The policy is not aimed at the Liberian people or government, Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: &#8211; U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced visa restrictions for individuals who he said were &#8220;undermining democracy&#8221; in Liberia ahead of the country&#8217;s elections in October. Blinken in a statement released by the U.S. State Department did not specify how many people were affected or identify them. The move restricts their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":420883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420884,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420882\/revisions\/420884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}