{"id":191093,"date":"2025-02-11T05:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-threats-from-illegal-miners-forced-me-into-exile-ghanaian-environmental-journalist-narrates-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T05:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:01:43","slug":"west-africa-threats-from-illegal-miners-forced-me-into-exile-ghanaian-environmental-journalist-narrates-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-threats-from-illegal-miners-forced-me-into-exile-ghanaian-environmental-journalist-narrates-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Threats From Illegal Miners Forced Me Into Exile &#8211; Ghanaian Environmental Journalist Narrates Ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Ghanaian Environmental journalist Erastus Asare Donkor of the Multimedia Group has disclosed that he had to flee Ghana before the country&#8217;s 2024 elections due to life-threatening intimidation in relation to his investigative reports on illegal mining, popularly referred to as &#8216;galamsey&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">On February 1, 2025, he recounted his ordeal on Accra-based <em>JoyNews<\/em>&#8216; Newsfile programme, detailing the challenges that compelled him to leave Ghana. Erastus revealed that his persistent expos\u00e9s on illegal mining&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502050021.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>Ghanaian Environmental journalist Erastus Asare Donkor of the Multimedia Group has disclosed that he had to flee Ghana before the country&#8217;s 2024 elections due to life-threatening intimidation in relation to his investigative reports on illegal mining, popularly referred to as &#8216;galamsey&#8217;. On February 1, 2025, he recounted his ordeal on Accra-based JoyNews&#8216; Newsfile programme, detailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191094,"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":[258,256,14654,16162,9512,4509,9510,6918,7277,13332,15371,257,15112,254,7611,4375],"class_list":["post-191093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-environmental","tag-exile","tag-forced","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaian","tag-illegal","tag-journalist","tag-miners","tag-narrates","tag-news","tag-ordeal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats","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\/191093","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=191093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}