{"id":192488,"date":"2025-02-28T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-military-officers-brutalise-journalists-in-walewale\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:41:02","slug":"west-africa-military-officers-brutalise-journalists-in-walewale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-military-officers-brutalise-journalists-in-walewale\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Military Officers Brutalise Journalists in Walewale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Military personnel have beaten two journalists, Alhassan Dokurugu and Tahiru Ibrahim in Walewale, in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region of Ghana, in a second attack on civilians by security agents in the town in a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Dokurugu of Asaase Radio and Ibrahim of Zaa Multimedia, were beaten on February 13, 2025 shortly after covering an arson attack on a passenger bus. Upon their arrival at the scene, they observed military officers violently assaulting civilians, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280332.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>Military personnel have beaten two journalists, Alhassan Dokurugu and Tahiru Ibrahim in Walewale, in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region of Ghana, in a second attack on civilians by security agents in the town in a week. Dokurugu of Asaase Radio and Ibrahim of Zaa Multimedia, were beaten on February 13, 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192489,"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":[258,256,50752,4509,1654,3318,257,6749,254,38931,4375],"class_list":["post-192488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brutalise","tag-ghana-news","tag-journalists","tag-military","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walewale","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\/192488","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=192488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}