{"id":20944,"date":"2018-12-05T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=20944"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:36:09","slug":"liberias-ambassador-designate-to-uk-maintains-shes-liberian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/liberias-ambassador-designate-to-uk-maintains-shes-liberian\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia\u2019s Ambassador Designate to UK Maintains She\u2019s Liberian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONROVIA \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Her US citizenship has been an issue of discussion since she was announced Liberia\u2019s Ambassador-designate to the United States and later the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Report by Henry Karmo,\u00a0henry.karmo@frontpageafricaonline.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports say her nomination as Liberia\u2019s ambassador to the US was rejected by the United States government because she carries a US citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Few weeks after Gurly T. Gibson was announced Ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James, the United Kingdom, she appeared on Tuesday, December 4, before the Senate\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee to give reasons why she should be considered by the Senate to serve as Liberia\u2019s ambassador to the Court of St. James.<\/p>\n<p>Gurly avoided questions about her citizenship that appears to be an issue raised by some section of the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a Liberian,\u201d she told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, moments after her confirmation, a report for confirmation consideration was placed on the Agenda of Tuesday session by the three committee members, who had conducted the hearing. The three-person committee was headed by Senator Conmany Wesseh of River Gee County.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/news\/liberias-ambassador-designate-to-uk-maintains-shes-liberian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/news\/liberias-ambassador-designate-to-uk-maintains-shes-liberian\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROVIA \u2013\u00a0Her US citizenship has been an issue of discussion since she was announced Liberia\u2019s Ambassador-designate to the United States and later the United Kingdom. Report by Henry Karmo,\u00a0henry.karmo@frontpageafricaonline.com Reports say her nomination as Liberia\u2019s ambassador to the US was rejected by the United States government because she carries a US citizenship. Few weeks after [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-liberia","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20948,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944\/revisions\/20948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}