{"id":186104,"date":"2024-12-08T00:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-temporary-closure-of-all-land-borders-ahead-of-december-7-general-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:21:46","slug":"ghana-temporary-closure-of-all-land-borders-ahead-of-december-7-general-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-temporary-closure-of-all-land-borders-ahead-of-december-7-general-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Temporary Closure of All Land Borders Ahead of December 7 General Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Ministry for the Interior has ordered the temporary closure of all land borders as part of measures to ensure the integrity of the December 7 General Elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;This temporary closure is with immediate effect and ends at 6:00pm on Sunday, 8th December 2024,&#8221; Interior Minister Henry Quartey said in a press statement issued in Accra today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Ministry therefore, urged all citizens,and travellers to and from Ghana,to cooperate with State Security Agencies enforcing the directive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412070011.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 Ministry for the Interior has ordered the temporary closure of all land borders as part of measures to ensure the integrity of the December 7 General Elections. &#8220;This temporary closure is with immediate effect and ends at 6:00pm on Sunday, 8th December 2024,&#8221; Interior Minister Henry Quartey said in a press statement issued in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660803:78e5edc48169d757cd62568ae6d67d57:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7019,8490,5061,6939,821,6768,4508,4509,6122,257,254,10186],"class_list":["post-186104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-borders","tag-closure","tag-december","tag-elections","tag-general","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-land","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-temporary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660803:78e5edc48169d757cd62568ae6d67d57:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186104","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=186104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}