{"id":221295,"date":"2026-01-21T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nafaa-boss-designate-pledges-stronger-governance-fish-production-boost-at-senate-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:18:15","slug":"liberia-nafaa-boss-designate-pledges-stronger-governance-fish-production-boost-at-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nafaa-boss-designate-pledges-stronger-governance-fish-production-boost-at-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Nafaa Boss Designate Pledges Stronger Governance, Fish Production Boost At Senate Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">J. Cyrus Saygbe Sr., director general-designate of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority, has pledged to strengthen governance, expand local fish production and protect Liberia&#8217;s marine resources as he appeared before the Liberian Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Testifying Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, Saygbe told lawmakers that fisheries and aquaculture are central to Liberia&#8217;s food security, job creation and economic growth, and said his leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601200685.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>J. Cyrus Saygbe Sr., director general-designate of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority, has pledged to strengthen governance, expand local fish production and protect Liberia&#8217;s marine resources as he appeared before the Liberian Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for confirmation. Testifying Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, Saygbe told lawmakers that fisheries and aquaculture are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221296,"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":[258,256,6557,6962,11106,8555,6866,6636,4712,1107,26457,257,7287,7544,8115,254,7288],"class_list":["post-221295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-boss","tag-designate","tag-fish","tag-governance","tag-hearing","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-nafaa","tag-news","tag-pledges","tag-production","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stronger"],"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\/221295","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=221295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}