{"id":185643,"date":"2024-12-01T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-mfwa-partners-urge-ghana-authorities-to-keep-the-internet-on-during-december-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T22:05:07","slug":"west-africa-mfwa-partners-urge-ghana-authorities-to-keep-the-internet-on-during-december-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-mfwa-partners-urge-ghana-authorities-to-keep-the-internet-on-during-december-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: MFWA, Partners Urge Ghana Authorities to Keep the Internet On During December Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and two other organisations have called on the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, to publicly commit to keeping the internet uninterrupted throughout the electoral processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The call was made during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Mis-disinformation-could-portend-danger-for-our-country-MFWA-warns-journalists-1961564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>press conference<\/strong><\/a> jointly organised in Accra on November 26, 2024 by MFWA, Access Now and the Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The three organisations demanded that authorities and internet service providers in Ghana must commit publicly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411290033.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 Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and two other organisations have called on the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, to publicly commit to keeping the internet uninterrupted throughout the electoral processes. The call was made during a press conference jointly organised in Accra on November 26, 2024 by MFWA, Access Now and the Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185644,"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":[258,256,7215,6939,821,4508,4509,7162,11415,257,5189,254,10525,4375],"class_list":["post-185643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-december","tag-elections","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-internet","tag-mfwa","tag-news","tag-partners","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge","tag-west"],"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\/185643","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=185643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}