{"id":69945,"date":"2016-05-16T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/u-s-assistant-secretary-for-african-affairs-thomas-greenfield-to-travel-to-monrovia\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:33:43","slug":"u-s-assistant-secretary-for-african-affairs-thomas-greenfield-to-travel-to-monrovia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-s-assistant-secretary-for-african-affairs-thomas-greenfield-to-travel-to-monrovia\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Thomas-Greenfield to Travel to Monrovia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, May 16, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media Note<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>May 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\nAssistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield will travel to Monrovia, May 15-17, 2016, for high-level meetings and to deliver a major speech. Her trip to Africa started in Abuja, Nigeria, where she attended the second Regional Security Summit with Deputy Secretary Antony Blinken and Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Justin Siberell.<\/p>\n<p>In Monrovia, Assistant Secretary Thomas-Greenfield will meet with senior representatives of the Liberian Government, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, to discuss bilateral and regional issues. She will deliver a speech focusing on the challenges facing Liberia and the 2017 presidential elections at the African Methodist Episcopal University. She will also tour a school named after her at the Edward Binyah Kesselly military training facility and barracks. The Assistant Secretary previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to follow the Assistant Secretary on Twitter @StateAfrica for more updates throughout her trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, May 16, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC May 13, 2016 Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield will travel to Monrovia, May 15-17, 2016, for high-level meetings and to deliver a major speech. Her trip to Africa started in Abuja, Nigeria, where she attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-69945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}