{"id":232656,"date":"2026-05-08T04:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-wpfd-2026-mfwa-founder-calls-for-passage-of-ghanas-stalled-broadcast-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:21:55","slug":"west-africa-wpfd-2026-mfwa-founder-calls-for-passage-of-ghanas-stalled-broadcast-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-wpfd-2026-mfwa-founder-calls-for-passage-of-ghanas-stalled-broadcast-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Wpfd 2026 &#8211; MFWA Founder Calls for Passage of Ghana&#8217;s Stalled Broadcast Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Prof. Kwame Karikari, has renewed calls for the imperative of a broadcasting law in Ghana, warning that the continued absence of a responsive regulatory regime undercuts the potential for professional practice and institutional development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Delivering a public lecture at a stakeholder event to commemorate World Press Freedom Day 2026, Prof. Karikari stressed that nearly three decades of inertia on the Broadcast Bill, first introduced in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605070522.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 founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Prof. Kwame Karikari, has renewed calls for the imperative of a broadcasting law in Ghana, warning that the continued absence of a responsive regulatory regime undercuts the potential for professional practice and institutional development. Delivering a public lecture at a stakeholder event to commemorate World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232657,"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":[258,256,7292,13032,6137,11693,4509,8226,11415,257,10527,254,17325,4375,48538],"class_list":["post-232656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-broadcast","tag-calls","tag-founder","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-mfwa","tag-news","tag-passage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalled","tag-west","tag-wpfd"],"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\/232656","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=232656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}