{"id":5638,"date":"2015-04-01T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2015-04-01T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:00:03","slug":"tourism-potential-in-ghana-hurt-by-open-defecation-on-the-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/tourism-potential-in-ghana-hurt-by-open-defecation-on-the-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism &#8216;potential&#8217; in Ghana hurt by open defecation on the beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a title=\"Ghana News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a> Ghana is one of Africa&#8217;s most developed countries, performing favorably in indexes of governance, stability, peacefulness and human development by regional standards.<\/p>\n<p>The La beach in Accra is a beautiful scenery. Two of Ghana&#8217;s leading hostels, La Palm Royal Beach and Labadi Beach are both located on the La beach. Other edifices like the Omaye house, La Beach Towers and presence of a small fisher folk community makes the place a unique location for relaxation. Unfortunately, indiscriminate open defecation that takes place there is devaluing the beauty of the area. Watch the video to learn more. Credit Metro TV News<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lqg8I4w0ItM?rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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>According to Wikipedia Ghana is one of Africa&#8217;s most developed countries, performing favorably in indexes of governance, stability, peacefulness and human development by regional standards. The La beach in Accra is a beautiful scenery. Two of Ghana&#8217;s leading hostels, La Palm Royal Beach and Labadi Beach are both located on the La beach. Other edifices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,4518,4517,4510,4508,4509,4511,4516,4513,4514,257,4515,254,4692],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beach","tag-beaches","tag-defecation-on-the-beaches","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-la-beach","tag-la-beach-towers","tag-la-palm-royal-beach","tag-labadi-beach","tag-news","tag-omaye-house","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/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=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}