{"id":192695,"date":"2025-03-03T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-do-well-to-win-galamsey-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T05:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:45:41","slug":"ghana-do-well-to-win-galamsey-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-do-well-to-win-galamsey-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Do Well to Win Galamsey Fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">DURING his campaign last year for the country&#8217;s presidency, Mr John Dramani Mahama promised to fight illegal mining, otherwise known as galamsey, in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">At the time he was saying this everywhere he went, the Akufo-Addo government had declared a fight against the menace and so some wondered what he would do differently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Today, he is the President and his government has begun varying the approaches to fighting illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Just yesterday, his vice, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, opened&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502270203.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>DURING his campaign last year for the country&#8217;s presidency, Mr John Dramani Mahama promised to fight illegal mining, otherwise known as galamsey, in the country. At the time he was saying this everywhere he went, the Akufo-Addo government had declared a fight against the menace and so some wondered what he would do differently. Today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192696,"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":[258,256,4345,8108,4508,4509,257,254,6660],"class_list":["post-192695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fight","tag-galamsey","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win"],"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\/192695","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=192695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}