{"id":226582,"date":"2026-03-11T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-rights-justice-action-time-to-act-on-the-safety-of-female-journalists-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:42:09","slug":"west-africa-rights-justice-action-time-to-act-on-the-safety-of-female-journalists-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-rights-justice-action-time-to-act-on-the-safety-of-female-journalists-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Rights. Justice. Action &#8211; Time to Act On the Safety of Female Journalists in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><em><em>On the occasion of the 2026 International Women&#8217;s Day celebration, the Media Foundation for West Africa&#8217;s (MFWA) Programme Assistant for Media for Democracy and Good Governance, Paul Kofi Gozo, reflects in this piece on the growing safety concerns facing female journalists in Ghana and why urgent action is needed.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">On Friday, 11 July 2025, the Ablekuma North constituency parliamentary rerun turned violent. During the altercation, a masked man deliberately turned toward JoyNews digital journalist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603100370.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>On the occasion of the 2026 International Women&#8217;s Day celebration, the Media Foundation for West Africa&#8217;s (MFWA) Programme Assistant for Media for Democracy and Good Governance, Paul Kofi Gozo, reflects in this piece on the growing safety concerns facing female journalists in Ghana and why urgent action is needed. On Friday, 11 July 2025, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226583,"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":[6991,6394,258,256,4353,4508,4509,1654,6852,257,5100,4672,254,6599,4375],"class_list":["post-226582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-act","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-female","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-journalists","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time","tag-west"],"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\/226582","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=226582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}