{"id":236498,"date":"2026-06-16T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ngafuan-pledges-govt-support-for-sports-development\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:25:54","slug":"liberia-ngafuan-pledges-govt-support-for-sports-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ngafuan-pledges-govt-support-for-sports-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ngafuan Pledges Govt Support for Sports Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to sports development, pledging support for initiatives aimed at strengthening the sector and elevating kickball as a uniquely Liberian sport deserving both national protection and international recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking as keynote speaker at the 2nd Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL) Awards, Minister Ngafuan called for deliberate efforts to preserve, brand, and promote&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606160171.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>Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to sports development, pledging support for initiatives aimed at strengthening the sector and elevating kickball as a uniquely Liberian sport deserving both national protection and international recognition. Speaking as keynote speaker at the 2nd Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236499,"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":[258,256,5989,4357,4712,1107,257,9152,7287,254,8045,6096],"class_list":["post-236498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-development","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-ngafuan","tag-pledges","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-support"],"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\/236498","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=236498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}