{"id":214665,"date":"2025-11-24T02:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ais-is-saving-us-fishermen-testify-as-nafaa-pilot-project-shows-success\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T02:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:09:50","slug":"liberia-ais-is-saving-us-fishermen-testify-as-nafaa-pilot-project-shows-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ais-is-saving-us-fishermen-testify-as-nafaa-pilot-project-shows-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Ais Is Saving Us&#8217; &#8211; Fishermen Testify As Nafaa Pilot Project Shows Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><strong>Partee, who goes to sea almost daily, has been using his AIS without any issues since he received it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A pilot project funded by the World Bank and led by the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) is transforming the lives of artisanal fishermen in Liberia&#8217;s coastal communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The &#8220;Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponder&#8221; project, which aims to improve safety for fishermen in three coastal counties, has begun receiving success stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210263.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>Partee, who goes to sea almost daily, has been using his AIS without any issues since he received it. A pilot project funded by the World Bank and led by the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) is transforming the lives of artisanal fishermen in Liberia&#8217;s coastal communities. The &#8220;Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponder&#8221; project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214666,"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":[258,256,52943,7526,4712,1107,26457,257,11981,6504,8418,7779,254,12051,10131],"class_list":["post-214665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ais","tag-fishermen","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-nafaa","tag-news","tag-pilot","tag-project","tag-saving","tag-shows","tag-south-africa-today","tag-success","tag-testify"],"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\/214665","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=214665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}