{"id":211381,"date":"2025-10-26T20:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mfwa-convenes-national-dialogue-on-ghanas-illegal-mining-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:25:50","slug":"ghana-mfwa-convenes-national-dialogue-on-ghanas-illegal-mining-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mfwa-convenes-national-dialogue-on-ghanas-illegal-mining-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: MFWA Convenes National Dialogue On Ghana&#8217;s Illegal Mining Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) will convene a two-day national dialogue from Tuesday, October 28 to Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at the Eastern Premier Hotel in Koforidua, Eastern Region. The event seeks to explore practical and inclusive solutions to the worsening problem of illegal mining, popularly known as <em>galamsey<\/em>, and the severe environmental and social toll it continues to inflict on Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Themed &#8220;<em>High-Level National Dialogue on Mobilising Citizens&#8217; Consensus on Solutions to&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240298.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) will convene a two-day national dialogue from Tuesday, October 28 to Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at the Eastern Premier Hotel in Koforidua, Eastern Region. The event seeks to explore practical and inclusive solutions to the worsening problem of illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, and the severe environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211382,"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":[258,256,12780,3723,6688,4508,4509,8226,6918,11415,6477,6687,257,254],"class_list":["post-211381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convenes","tag-crisis","tag-dialogue","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-illegal","tag-mfwa","tag-mining","tag-national","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/211381","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=211381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}