{"id":226533,"date":"2026-03-10T13:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-new-initiative-trains-african-mayors-in-land-based-municipal-revenue\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:09:58","slug":"liberia-new-initiative-trains-african-mayors-in-land-based-municipal-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-new-initiative-trains-african-mayors-in-land-based-municipal-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: New Initiative Trains African Mayors in Land-Based Municipal Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Monrovia \u2014 The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), has launched a strategic initiative to strengthen and unlock land-based revenues for African city leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking at the colorful launch event, Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, emphasized, &#8220;Land must finance the growth of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The continental initiative seeks to equip African city leaders with practical tools for sustainable urban&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603100241.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 The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), has launched a strategic initiative to strengthen and unlock land-based revenues for African city leaders. Speaking at the colorful launch event, Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, emphasized, &#8220;Land must finance the growth of the country.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226534,"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":[258,256,4380,9890,53863,4712,1107,14451,7481,257,7343,254,7055],"class_list":["post-226533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-initiative","tag-landbased","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mayors","tag-municipal","tag-news","tag-revenue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trains"],"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\/226533","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=226533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}