{"id":250417,"date":"2026-11-15T01:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-borders-need-more-than-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T01:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T23:30:16","slug":"ghanas-borders-need-more-than-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-borders-need-more-than-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Borders Need More Than Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">GHANA&#8217;S borders are critical to the country&#8217;s national security, economic stability and territorial integrity. They serve as gateways for legitimate trade, tourism and the movement of people, but they can also become channels for smuggling, drug trafficking, human trafficking and other organised crimes when surveillance and enforcement are inadequate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">It is, therefore, encouraging that the government is considering the deployment of an integrated security system incorporating Artificial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130246.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>GHANA&#8217;S borders are critical to the country&#8217;s national security, economic stability and territorial integrity. They serve as gateways for legitimate trade, tourism and the movement of people, but they can also become channels for smuggling, drug trafficking, human trafficking and other organised crimes when surveillance and enforcement are inadequate. It is, therefore, encouraging that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250418,"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":[258,256,8490,4509,8226,257,254,5734],"class_list":["post-250417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borders","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-technology"],"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\/250417","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=250417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}