{"id":200056,"date":"2025-06-13T13:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-mahama-requests-clemency-for-affected-radio-stations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:58:24","slug":"ghana-president-mahama-requests-clemency-for-affected-radio-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-mahama-requests-clemency-for-affected-radio-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President Mahama Requests Clemency for Affected Radio Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Minister for Communications, Digital Technology<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">and Innovation to liaise with the National Communications Authority (NCA) to immediately restore<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">the broadcast of sixty-four (64) radio stations affected by the regulator&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The President believes that regulatory compliance must take into account the need to uphold and enhance media freedom, and that requiring radio stations to shut down while awaiting the regularisation of their authorisation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506130091.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>President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation to liaise with the National Communications Authority (NCA) to immediately restore the broadcast of sixty-four (64) radio stations affected by the regulator&#8217;s action. The President believes that regulatory compliance must take into account the need to uphold and enhance media freedom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661427:43f956b9d356b2290a1890d8224c0218:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[7104,258,256,31995,4508,4509,7780,257,2450,10612,8035,254,8216],"class_list":["post-200056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-affected","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clemency","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-president","tag-radio","tag-requests","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stations"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661427:43f956b9d356b2290a1890d8224c0218:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200056","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=200056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}