{"id":1165133,"date":"2022-08-03T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/10-women-banished-to-gambaga-witch-camp-since-march-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:35:04","slug":"10-women-banished-to-gambaga-witch-camp-since-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/10-women-banished-to-gambaga-witch-camp-since-march-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"10 women banished to Gambaga witch camp since March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"10 women banished to Gambaga witch camp since March 2022\" title=\"10 women banished to Gambaga witch camp since March 2022\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Violence against women in connection with witchcraft continues to rise in the Northeast Region despite President Akuffo-Addo\u2019s intervention to end the menace.<\/p>\n<p>President Akuffo-Addo in February this year sent a delegation to the region led by his special advisor on Gender and Development, Angela Asante after a JoyNews report exposed how two women from the Mamprusi East community were accused of witchcraft and subjected to severe torture by a Togolese priest.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation on the fact-finding mission also held meetings with both the Regional Security Council and the House of Chiefs to express the President\u2019s anger with the development as well as tasked the two bodies to work to ensure the practice was brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>However, authorities at the Gambaga witch camp say nothing has changed since  the visit by the presidential delegation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the camp\u2019s coordinator, Sampson Laar, nearly 10 women have since been accused and violently banished from their communities without any action from the security services.<\/p>\n<p>Eliasu Tanko has more in the following video report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"l44hMRxxkCE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10 women banished to Gambaga witch camp since March 2022\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l44hMRxxkCE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence against women in connection with witchcraft continues to rise in the Northeast Region despite President Akuffo-Addo\u2019s intervention to end the menace. President Akuffo-Addo in February this year sent a delegation to the region led by his special advisor on Gender and Development, Angela Asante after a JoyNews report exposed how two women from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[22136,4696,22137,4095,12368,427],"class_list":["post-1165133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-banished","tag-camp","tag-gambaga","tag-march","tag-witch","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}