{"id":187646,"date":"2025-01-01T01:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-independence-square-to-close-for-presidential-swearing-in-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T01:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:14:23","slug":"ghana-independence-square-to-close-for-presidential-swearing-in-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-independence-square-to-close-for-presidential-swearing-in-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Independence Square to Close for Presidential Swearing in Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Independence Square and its surrounding areas will be temporarily closed to the public to prepare for the swearing-in ceremony of President-Elect John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Ministry of Information in a public announcement says the iconic national monument, located in the heart of Accra closure takes effect from December 31, 2024, to January 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This move , it said is intended to facilitate the necessary preparations and ensure the smooth execution of the historic event scheduled for January&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412310328.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 Independence Square and its surrounding areas will be temporarily closed to the public to prepare for the swearing-in ceremony of President-Elect John Dramani Mahama. The Ministry of Information in a public announcement says the iconic national monument, located in the heart of Accra closure takes effect from December 31, 2024, to January 8, 2025. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187647,"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":[258,256,6358,6748,4508,4509,7690,257,6438,254,11896,18658],"class_list":["post-187646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceremony","tag-close","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-independence","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-square","tag-swearing"],"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\/187646","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=187646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}