{"id":188849,"date":"2025-01-17T15:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pres-mahama-expresses-worry-over-worsening-chieftaincy-disputes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:58:40","slug":"ghana-pres-mahama-expresses-worry-over-worsening-chieftaincy-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pres-mahama-expresses-worry-over-worsening-chieftaincy-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Pres Mahama Expresses Worry Over Worsening Chieftaincy Disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">President John Dramani Mahama has expressed concern over the growing number of chieftaincy disputes across the country, stressing that the situation has become a major national security threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He said the situation where rival chiefs emerged upon the demise of a chief was worrying and must be addressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;[In] all the security briefings I got after December 7, the chieftaincy disputes have become a major issue. Anytime a chief passes away and a chief is selected, invariably two or three rival&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501150339.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>President John Dramani Mahama has expressed concern over the growing number of chieftaincy disputes across the country, stressing that the situation has become a major national security threat. He said the situation where rival chiefs emerged upon the demise of a chief was worrying and must be addressed. &#8220;[In] all the security briefings I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188850,"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":[258,256,12957,12689,11664,4508,4509,7780,257,6911,254,9036,9273],"class_list":["post-188849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chieftaincy","tag-disputes","tag-expresses","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-pres","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worry","tag-worsening"],"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\/188849","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=188849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}