{"id":219300,"date":"2026-01-05T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-condemns-u-s-military-action-in-venezuela-calls-for-release-of-president-maduro\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:16:50","slug":"ghana-condemns-u-s-military-action-in-venezuela-calls-for-release-of-president-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-condemns-u-s-military-action-in-venezuela-calls-for-release-of-president-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Condemns U.S. Military Action in Venezuela, Calls for Release of President Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Government of Ghana has expressed concern over what it calls a unilateral and unauthorised military invasion of Venezuela by the United States, and the abduction of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday, Ghana said the incident happened in the early hours of January 3, 2026, and criticized the use of force outside international law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Ghana said such action would violate the United Nations Charter and harm the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050057.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 Government of Ghana has expressed concern over what it calls a unilateral and unauthorised military invasion of Venezuela by the United States, and the abduction of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. In a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday, Ghana said the incident happened in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219301,"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":[6394,258,256,6137,7610,4508,4509,53323,3318,257,2450,6011,254,2282,15133],"class_list":["post-219300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-condemns","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-maduro","tag-military","tag-news","tag-president","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-venezuela"],"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\/219300","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=219300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}