{"id":187539,"date":"2024-12-30T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-president-faces-tough-start-as-economic-crisis-drives-people-to-leave\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:11:46","slug":"ghanas-president-faces-tough-start-as-economic-crisis-drives-people-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-president-faces-tough-start-as-economic-crisis-drives-people-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s President Faces Tough Start As Economic Crisis Drives People to Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em> Ghana&#8217;s president-elect John Mahama, due to be inaugurated on 7 January, will have his work cut out, as the country suffers its worst economic crisis in a generation and a study finds more than 60 percent of Ghanaians want to emigrate. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Mahama has been Ghana&#8217;s main opposition figure for several years, having previously served as president from July 2012 to January 2017. He failed in his bid to be re-elected in 2016&#8217;s elections, and then again in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">But while his party and supporters are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412300066.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>Ghana&#8217;s president-elect John Mahama, due to be inaugurated on 7 January, will have his work cut out, as the country suffers its worst economic crisis in a generation and a study finds more than 60 percent of Ghanaians want to emigrate. Mahama has been Ghana&#8217;s main opposition figure for several years, having previously served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660814:da4cb44ec1033ce3e123f637eb7402cf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3723,12760,3576,5080,4509,8226,6775,257,6321,2450,254,7138,5039],"class_list":["post-187539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-drives","tag-economic","tag-faces","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-people","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-tough"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660814:da4cb44ec1033ce3e123f637eb7402cf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187539","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=187539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}