{"id":200128,"date":"2025-06-14T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-presidents-directive-to-halt-shutdown-of-62-radio-stations-commendable\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:00:55","slug":"west-africa-presidents-directive-to-halt-shutdown-of-62-radio-stations-commendable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-presidents-directive-to-halt-shutdown-of-62-radio-stations-commendable\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: President&#8217;s Directive to Halt Shutdown of 62 Radio Stations Commendable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) finds Ghanaian President&#8217;s intervention to halt a media regulator&#8217;s broadcast suspension order for 62 radio stations both refreshing and commendable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">We also welcome the Ministry of Communications&#8217; announcement of a 30-day grace period for the affected stations to regularise their licensing status, following the President&#8217;s intervention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">In a public notice issued on June 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NCAGhana\/status\/1933086067017597199\">the National Communications Authority (NCA) ordered the 62 stations to suspend&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506130232.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 Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) finds Ghanaian President&#8217;s intervention to halt a media regulator&#8217;s broadcast suspension order for 62 radio stations both refreshing and commendable. We also welcome the Ministry of Communications&#8217; announcement of a 30-day grace period for the affected stations to regularise their licensing status, following the President&#8217;s intervention. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200129,"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":[5432,258,256,14923,9137,4509,7520,257,7527,10612,254,8216,4375],"class_list":["post-200128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-shutdown","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commendable","tag-directive","tag-ghana-news","tag-halt","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-radio","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stations","tag-west"],"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\/200128","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=200128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}