{"id":230707,"date":"2026-04-19T03:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sports-journalists-urged-to-support-fight-against-athletes-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:40:42","slug":"ghana-sports-journalists-urged-to-support-fight-against-athletes-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sports-journalists-urged-to-support-fight-against-athletes-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Sports Journalists Urged to Support Fight Against Athletes Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Ghanaian sports journalists have been urged to take a lead role in tackling human trafficking in sport, particularly as athletes are increasingly being exploited with false promises of professional opportunities abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The call was made at a media training session organised by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Accra, where journalists were briefed by officials from anti-trafficking agencies on emerging methods used by traffickers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Supt. William Ayaregah, Director of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170246.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>Ghanaian sports journalists have been urged to take a lead role in tackling human trafficking in sport, particularly as athletes are increasingly being exploited with false promises of professional opportunities abroad. The call was made at a media training session organised by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Accra, where journalists were briefed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230708,"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":[258,256,7884,4345,4508,4509,1654,257,254,8045,6096,6615,6206],"class_list":["post-230707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-athletes","tag-fight","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-journalists","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-support","tag-trafficking","tag-urged"],"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\/230707","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=230707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}