{"id":238283,"date":"2026-07-08T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-waste-greed-and-silence-who-will-save-sakumo-lagoon\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:49:44","slug":"ghana-waste-greed-and-silence-who-will-save-sakumo-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-waste-greed-and-silence-who-will-save-sakumo-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Waste, Greed and Silence &#8211; Who Will Save Sakumo Lagoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The unfolding environmental crisis at the Sakumono Ramsar Site should trouble every Ghanaian who values our natural heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">What was once a thriving wetland of international importance is now being choked under heaps of refuse, right before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Ghanaian Times has, through a visit to the Sakumo Lagoon, observed a disturbing reality: a protected ecological zone is steadily being transformed into an illegal landfill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">What&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607070392.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 unfolding environmental crisis at the Sakumono Ramsar Site should trouble every Ghanaian who values our natural heritage. What was once a thriving wetland of international importance is now being choked under heaps of refuse, right before our eyes. The Ghanaian Times has, through a visit to the Sakumo Lagoon, observed a disturbing reality: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,4964,36460,257,54804,7301,6992,254,11569],"class_list":["post-238283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-greed","tag-lagoon","tag-news","tag-sakumo","tag-save","tag-silence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238283","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=238283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}