{"id":232704,"date":"2026-05-08T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gaf-clears-17-75km-for-accra-kumasi-expressway-project\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:22:53","slug":"ghana-gaf-clears-17-75km-for-accra-kumasi-expressway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gaf-clears-17-75km-for-accra-kumasi-expressway-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GAF Clears 17.75km for Accra-Kumasi Expressway Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Engineers from the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have cleared 17.75 kilometres of land to pave the way for the construction of the 175.6-kilometre Accra-Kumasi Expressway project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The project is designed to connect the Greater Accra, Eastern and Ashanti regions through key communities including Ablekuma, Adiembra, Adeiso, Asamankese, Anamase, Akim Oda, Ofoase Ayirebi, Enikawkaw, Gyadamua, Asante Achiase, Kwaso and Sawua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">This came to light when the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Lieutenant General&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605080344.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>Engineers from the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have cleared 17.75 kilometres of land to pave the way for the construction of the 175.6-kilometre Accra-Kumasi Expressway project. The project is designed to connect the Greater Accra, Eastern and Ashanti regions through key communities including Ablekuma, Adiembra, Adeiso, Asamankese, Anamase, Akim Oda, Ofoase Ayirebi, Enikawkaw, Gyadamua, Asante [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232705,"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":[54355,52915,258,256,11223,8794,12803,4508,4509,257,6504,254],"class_list":["post-232704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-17-75km","tag-accrakumasi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clears","tag-expressway","tag-gaf","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-project","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\/232704","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=232704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}