{"id":181068,"date":"2024-09-22T05:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T03:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-fight-against-illegal-mining-the-asantehenes-approach\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T05:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T03:29:30","slug":"ghana-the-fight-against-illegal-mining-the-asantehenes-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-fight-against-illegal-mining-the-asantehenes-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: The Fight Against Illegal Mining &#8211; the Asantehene&#8217;s Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Amidst the economic crucibles the country faces, illegal mining, which has been a headache for all successive governments over the years, has resurfaced more than ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Observers say the level of impunity at which illegal mining popularly referred to in this country as &#8216;galamsey&#8217; has reached is alarming than ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The New Patriotic Party (NPP), since its assumption of office, has vehemently declared a fight against illegal mining in the country. It was so crucial to the government that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409200301.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>Amidst the economic crucibles the country faces, illegal mining, which has been a headache for all successive governments over the years, has resurfaced more than ever. Observers say the level of impunity at which illegal mining popularly referred to in this country as &#8216;galamsey&#8217; has reached is alarming than ever. The New Patriotic Party (NPP), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181069,"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":[258,256,10111,49581,4345,4508,4509,6918,6477,257,254],"class_list":["post-181068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approach","tag-asantehenes","tag-fight","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-illegal","tag-mining","tag-news","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\/181068","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=181068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}