{"id":190081,"date":"2025-01-30T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-mfwa-urges-police-to-arrest-and-prosecute-assailants-of-environmental-journalist\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:31:09","slug":"west-africa-mfwa-urges-police-to-arrest-and-prosecute-assailants-of-environmental-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-mfwa-urges-police-to-arrest-and-prosecute-assailants-of-environmental-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: MFWA Urges Police to Arrest and Prosecute Assailants of Environmental Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The MFWA deplores the brutal attack by illegal miners on Ohemeng Tawiah, assistant news editor of Accra-based Joy News, and urges the police to ensure justice for the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Tawiah was assaulted on December 20, 2024, while in the company of a police team that had been dispatched to clamp down on activities of illegal miners in the Offin Shelter Belt Forest Reserve at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/joynews-ohemeng-tawiah-sustains-life-threatening-injuries-in-police-illegal-miners-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anwiafutu<\/a> in the Ashanti region of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He was following up on an earlier story he published on illegal mining in the area about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280020.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 MFWA deplores the brutal attack by illegal miners on Ohemeng Tawiah, assistant news editor of Accra-based Joy News, and urges the police to ensure justice for the victim. Tawiah was assaulted on December 20, 2024, while in the company of a police team that had been dispatched to clamp down on activities of illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190082,"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":[258,256,6414,10867,14654,4509,7277,11415,257,662,16592,254,6810,4375],"class_list":["post-190081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-assailants","tag-environmental","tag-ghana-news","tag-journalist","tag-mfwa","tag-news","tag-police","tag-prosecute","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-west"],"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\/190081","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=190081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}