{"id":223088,"date":"2026-02-07T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ngafuan-urges-sprint-to-overcome-development-delays-at-launch-of-two-major-reform-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:57:19","slug":"liberia-ngafuan-urges-sprint-to-overcome-development-delays-at-launch-of-two-major-reform-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ngafuan-urges-sprint-to-overcome-development-delays-at-launch-of-two-major-reform-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ngafuan Urges &#8216;Sprint&#8217; to Overcome Development Delays At Launch of Two Major Reform Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 Acknowledging delays in Liberia&#8217;s development drive, Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has called for accelerated action across government, urging institutions to &#8220;double up&#8221; efforts to meet the administration&#8217;s real-time development agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Minister Ngafuan said Liberia must move beyond incremental progress and adopt what he described as &#8220;strategic acceleration,&#8221; shifting from a slow run to a sprint in order to overcome persistent development&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060293.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>Monrovia \u2014 Acknowledging delays in Liberia&#8217;s development drive, Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has called for accelerated action across government, urging institutions to &#8220;double up&#8221; efforts to meet the administration&#8217;s real-time development agenda. Minister Ngafuan said Liberia must move beyond incremental progress and adopt what he described as &#8220;strategic acceleration,&#8221; shifting from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223089,"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":[258,256,6190,5989,5741,4712,1107,7373,257,9152,10456,6039,6099,254,32776,6810],"class_list":["post-223088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delays","tag-development","tag-launch","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-major","tag-news","tag-ngafuan","tag-overcome","tag-projects","tag-reform","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sprint","tag-urges"],"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\/223088","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=223088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}