{"id":204446,"date":"2025-08-11T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-nation-in-pensive-mood-as-thousands-grieve-victims-of-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:04:59","slug":"ghana-nation-in-pensive-mood-as-thousands-grieve-victims-of-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-nation-in-pensive-mood-as-thousands-grieve-victims-of-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Nation in Pensive Mood &#8211; As Thousands Grieve Victims of Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Thousands of mourners, on Saturday evening, converged on the forecourt of the State House in Accra to honour the memories of the eight persons who perished in a ghastly helicopter crash on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Led by President John Dramani Mahama, the mourners included Vice President Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Dr Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone and Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government and former President John Agyekum Kufuor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Also in attendance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508110216.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>Thousands of mourners, on Saturday evening, converged on the forecourt of the State House in Accra to honour the memories of the eight persons who perished in a ghastly helicopter crash on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. Led by President John Dramani Mahama, the mourners included Vice President Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Dr Julius Maada Bio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204447,"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":[258,256,7750,4508,4509,52080,11103,13383,10970,257,52079,254,9216,8402],"class_list":["post-204446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crash","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-grieve","tag-helicopter","tag-mood","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-pensive","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thousands","tag-victims"],"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\/204446","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=204446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}