{"id":223976,"date":"2026-02-16T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-at-39th-general-assembly-of-au-pres-mahama-rallies-au-to-press-for-reparations-justice\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:53:51","slug":"africa-at-39th-general-assembly-of-au-pres-mahama-rallies-au-to-press-for-reparations-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-at-39th-general-assembly-of-au-pres-mahama-rallies-au-to-press-for-reparations-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: At 39th General Assembly of AU &#8211; Pres Mahama Rallies AU to Press for Reparations Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">President John Dramani Mahama has urged the African Union (AU) to assert its demand for reparatory justice or risk never attaining the justice it seeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;Reparatory justice will not be handed to us like political independence; it must be asserted, pursued and secured through determination and unity,&#8221; President Mahama, the AU Champion on Reparatory Justice, stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">He made the call at the 39th General Assembly of the AU on Sunday when he reported on the implementation of Assembly Decision 884, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602160211.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>President John Dramani Mahama has urged the African Union (AU) to assert its demand for reparatory justice or risk never attaining the justice it seeks. &#8220;Reparatory justice will not be handed to us like political independence; it must be asserted, pursued and secured through determination and unity,&#8221; President Mahama, the AU Champion on Reparatory Justice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223977,"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":[16819,258,256,7269,6768,4509,6852,7780,257,6911,6010,11878,2792,254],"class_list":["post-223976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-39th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-general","tag-ghana-news","tag-justice","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-pres","tag-press","tag-rallies","tag-reparations","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\/223976","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=223976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}