{"id":193607,"date":"2025-03-15T18:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-anti-flood-task-force-undertakes-aerial-recce-of-accra-ahead-of-rains\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:51:29","slug":"ghana-anti-flood-task-force-undertakes-aerial-recce-of-accra-ahead-of-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-anti-flood-task-force-undertakes-aerial-recce-of-accra-ahead-of-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Anti-Flood Task Force Undertakes Aerial Recce of Accra &#8230;Ahead of Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Government&#8217;s Anti-Flood Task Force on Wednesday took an aerial tour of Accra to ascertain the resilience of the capital to floods ahead of the rainy season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The aerial recce took the team to four flood basins in the capital with the view to have first-hand information on the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The basins toured were the Sakumono Ramsar Site area, Tema Fishing Harbour area, Achimota and Weija.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">From the air, it was observed that buildings were erected in water ways forcing a diversion of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140459.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 Government&#8217;s Anti-Flood Task Force on Wednesday took an aerial tour of Accra to ascertain the resilience of the capital to floods ahead of the rainy season. The aerial recce took the team to four flood basins in the capital with the view to have first-hand information on the situation on the ground. The basins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4512,45810,258,256,7019,50872,4383,4508,4509,257,15767,50873,254,11780,12807],"class_list":["post-193607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-aerial","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-antiflood","tag-force","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-recce","tag-south-africa-today","tag-task","tag-undertakes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193607","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=193607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}