{"id":180458,"date":"2024-09-12T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-organised-labour-associations-csos-join-call-to-combat-illegal-mining\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:04:40","slug":"ghana-organised-labour-associations-csos-join-call-to-combat-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-organised-labour-associations-csos-join-call-to-combat-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Organised Labour, Associations, CSOs Join Call to Combat Illegal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The demand for an urgent crack down on illegal mining (galamsey) in the country continues to gain momentum by the day, as at least 10 more groups join the advocacy with fresh statements, threats and ultimatums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">They include Organised Labour, Ghana Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference (GCBC), Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), Office of the Chief Imam, Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Media Coalition Against Galamsey (MCaG) and the Executive Women&#8217;s Network (EWN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The others are Ghana Association of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409120180.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for an urgent crack down on illegal mining (galamsey) in the country continues to gain momentum by the day, as at least 10 more groups join the advocacy with fresh statements, threats and ultimatums. They include Organised Labour, Ghana Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference (GCBC), Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), Office of the Chief Imam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,21373,6880,12857,10524,4508,4509,6918,7107,8361,6477,257,16976,254],"class_list":["post-180458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-associations","tag-call","tag-combat","tag-csos","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-illegal","tag-join","tag-labour","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-organised","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.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\/180458","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=180458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}