{"id":217319,"date":"2025-12-19T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/ghana-goc-president-arrives-in-luanda-for-african-youth-games\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:16:27","slug":"ghana-goc-president-arrives-in-luanda-for-african-youth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/ghana-goc-president-arrives-in-luanda-for-african-youth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Goc President Arrives in Luanda for African Youth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">MR Richard Akpokavie Esq., President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), has arrived in Luanda, Angola for the ongoing African Youth Games which began on December 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The President was accompanied by Mr Mohammed Muniru Kassim, Secretary General of the GOC, together with other Board members of the Olympic Committee. The delegation paid a visit to Team Ghana&#8217;s base at the Games Village, and that has injected fresh energy into Ghana&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Ghana is competing in 16 sporting disciplines,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190502.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MR Richard Akpokavie Esq., President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), has arrived in Luanda, Angola for the ongoing African Youth Games which began on December 10, 2025. The President was accompanied by Mr Mohammed Muniru Kassim, Secretary General of the GOC, together with other Board members of the Olympic Committee. The delegation paid a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217320,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4380,4263,8692,6731,4508,44803,3938,257,2450,254,6276],"class_list":["post-217319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-angola-news","tag-arrives","tag-games","tag-ghana","tag-goc","tag-luanda","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/217319","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}