{"id":229264,"date":"2026-04-02T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-world-bank-country-manager-pushes-private-investment-at-liberias-first-fisheries-investment-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:00:14","slug":"liberia-world-bank-country-manager-pushes-private-investment-at-liberias-first-fisheries-investment-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-world-bank-country-manager-pushes-private-investment-at-liberias-first-fisheries-investment-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: World Bank Country Manager Pushes Private Investment At Liberia&#8217;s First Fisheries Investment Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Monrovia \u2014 The World Bank has called for increased private sector investment in Liberia&#8217;s fisheries sector, describing it as critical to unlocking jobs, boosting revenues, and ensuring long-term economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking at the opening of Liberia&#8217;s first National Fisheries Investment Conference, World Bank Liberia Country Manager Georgia Wallen emphasized that sustainable investment is key to transforming the sector into a major driver of the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The conference, which brought&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010354.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 World Bank has called for increased private sector investment in Liberia&#8217;s fisheries sector, describing it as critical to unlocking jobs, boosting revenues, and ensuring long-term economic growth. Speaking at the opening of Liberia&#8217;s first National Fisheries Investment Conference, World Bank Liberia Country Manager Georgia Wallen emphasized that sustainable investment is key to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229265,"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":[258,256,7089,5739,5042,7087,6018,4712,1107,8536,5112,257,5990,16296,254,5093],"class_list":["post-229264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-conference","tag-country","tag-fisheries","tag-investment","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-manager","tag-news","tag-private","tag-pushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/229264","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=229264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}