{"id":231565,"date":"2026-04-27T03:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sakumono-ramsar-site-faces-renewed-encroachment-grcc-to-demolish-illegal-structures\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:57:54","slug":"ghana-sakumono-ramsar-site-faces-renewed-encroachment-grcc-to-demolish-illegal-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sakumono-ramsar-site-faces-renewed-encroachment-grcc-to-demolish-illegal-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Sakumono Ramsar Site Faces Renewed Encroachment &#8211; GRCC to Demolish Illegal Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Sakumono Ramsar Site is facing renewed and intensified encroachment following a temporary suspension of demolition exercises by the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GRCC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A visit by The Ghanaian Times yesterday revealed a surge in construction activity, with new structures rapidly emerging as masons and carpenters worked at a brisk pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The encroachment has spread beyond previously cleared areas into the core basin of the protected wetland, raising fresh concerns about its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604230330.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 Sakumono Ramsar Site is facing renewed and intensified encroachment following a temporary suspension of demolition exercises by the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GRCC). A visit by The Ghanaian Times yesterday revealed a surge in construction activity, with new structures rapidly emerging as masons and carpenters worked at a brisk pace. The encroachment has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231566,"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":[258,256,21426,33585,5080,4508,4509,54282,6918,257,54281,6391,54280,7378,254,8390],"class_list":["post-231565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demolish","tag-encroachment","tag-faces","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-grcc","tag-illegal","tag-news","tag-ramsar","tag-renewed","tag-sakumono","tag-site","tag-south-africa-today","tag-structures"],"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\/231565","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=231565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}