{"id":189154,"date":"2025-01-21T04:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T02:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bloody-15-people-dead-houses-torched-in-obuasi-nkwanta-clashes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T04:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T02:07:35","slug":"ghana-bloody-15-people-dead-houses-torched-in-obuasi-nkwanta-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bloody-15-people-dead-houses-torched-in-obuasi-nkwanta-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Bloody !! &#8230;15 People Dead, Houses Torched in Obuasi, Nkwanta Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">At least 15 people were reported dead in two separate fatal clashes in Obuasi and Nkwanta, respectively in the Ashanti and Oti regions over the past week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In Obuasi, more than 10 people have been reported dead following a clash between a group of illegal miners and military personnel deployed to guard Anglogold Ashanti (AGA) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The miners met their death when they allegedly engaged the military personnel in a shoot-out as part of their efforts to forcefully enter into the AGA&#8217;s through&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501200680.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>At least 15 people were reported dead in two separate fatal clashes in Obuasi and Nkwanta, respectively in the Ashanti and Oti regions over the past week. In Obuasi, more than 10 people have been reported dead following a clash between a group of illegal miners and military personnel deployed to guard Anglogold Ashanti (AGA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189155,"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":[50433,258,256,14366,12379,8096,4508,4509,7664,257,19610,26712,6321,254,7403],"class_list":["post-189154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-50433","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bloody","tag-clashes","tag-dead","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-houses","tag-news","tag-nkwanta","tag-obuasi","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-torched"],"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\/189154","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=189154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}