{"id":38489,"date":"2026-07-01T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38489"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:15:27","slug":"at-least-12-dead-in-ghana-floods","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/at-least-12-dead-in-ghana-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 12 dead in Ghana floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">At least 12 people have died after torrential rains triggered severe flooding across Ghana, including the capital, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>More than 470 people have been rescued, with emergency crews continuing search and rescue operations.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">President John\u00a0Mahama\u00a0says Accra recorded around 140 millimetres\u00a0of rain, the highest in years, blaming changing climate conditions for the extreme weather.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nHeavy rains have also battered\u00a0neighbouring\u00a0Ivory Coast, where local sources say multiple people are feared dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23027,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-38489","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"About 12 people have died after torrential rains triggered severe flooding across Ghana","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38490,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38489\/revisions\/38490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}