{"id":214409,"date":"2025-11-21T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-community-driven-development-how-panta-residents-rebuilt-their-lifeline-road-in-bong\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:03:04","slug":"liberia-community-driven-development-how-panta-residents-rebuilt-their-lifeline-road-in-bong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-community-driven-development-how-panta-residents-rebuilt-their-lifeline-road-in-bong\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Community-Driven Development &#8211; How Panta Residents Rebuilt Their Lifeline Road in Bong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">PANTA \u2014 For the first time in years, residents of Panta District #4 are watching graders, loaders, and trucks reshape the only road that connects their communities to markets, clinics, and schools, not because the government finally intervened, but because citizens organized, funded, and rebuilt it themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">What was once a notoriously treacherous stretch of mud, gullies, and broken laterite from Foelah junction through Garmue to Desha Town at the Liberia-Guinea border is now undergoing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210266.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>PANTA \u2014 For the first time in years, residents of Panta District #4 are watching graders, loaders, and trucks reshape the only road that connects their communities to markets, clinics, and schools, not because the government finally intervened, but because citizens organized, funded, and rebuilt it themselves. What was once a notoriously treacherous stretch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214410,"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":[258,256,2960,14899,5989,4712,1107,14266,257,52917,31332,4288,7414,254],"class_list":["post-214409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bong","tag-communitydriven","tag-development","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lifeline","tag-news","tag-panta","tag-rebuilt","tag-residents","tag-road","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\/214409","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=214409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}