{"id":189941,"date":"2025-01-29T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-at-a-critical-juncture-rebuilding-public-trust-starts-with-tackling-threats-gaps-in-security-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:26:08","slug":"ghana-at-a-critical-juncture-rebuilding-public-trust-starts-with-tackling-threats-gaps-in-security-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-at-a-critical-juncture-rebuilding-public-trust-starts-with-tackling-threats-gaps-in-security-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana At a Critical Juncture &#8211; Rebuilding Public Trust Starts With Tackling Threats, Gaps in Security Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em> Ghana is at a critical point in its political trajectory. These are the targeted reforms the new administration needs to prepare for to halt further deterioration. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Ghana&#8217;s new president, John Mahama, took over this month from Nana Akufo-Addo following the December 2024 elections. Rising poverty and high living costs were major campaign issues &#8211; fallouts of an economic crisis that drove the country into an International Monetary Fund bailout in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Illegal mining (galamsey) was also a hot <a...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280074.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 is at a critical point in its political trajectory. These are the targeted reforms the new administration needs to prepare for to halt further deterioration. Ghana&#8217;s new president, John Mahama, took over this month from Nana Akufo-Addo following the December 2024 elections. Rising poverty and high living costs were major campaign issues &#8211; fallouts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661104:3925a4a98a0c6268661369c313ee3767:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7129,10441,4508,4509,21617,257,5751,18344,5991,4586,254,8899,6210,7611,8641],"class_list":["post-189941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-critical","tag-gaps","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-juncture","tag-news","tag-public","tag-rebuilding","tag-sector","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starts","tag-tackling","tag-threats","tag-trust"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661104:3925a4a98a0c6268661369c313ee3767:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941","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=189941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}