{"id":745894,"date":"2019-11-16T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/16\/nana-addo-arrives-in-yendi-for-2019-damba-festival\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T17:15:42","slug":"nana-addo-arrives-in-yendi-for-2019-damba-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/16\/nana-addo-arrives-in-yendi-for-2019-damba-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo Arrives In Yendi For 2019 Damba Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has arrived in Yendi for this year\u2019s Damba festival which is celebrated by the King of Dagbon, Ya Na Abukari II.<\/p>\n<p>The President was accompanied by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley and several dignitaries including ambassadors and commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>The King of Dagbon, Ya Na Abukari II is expected to enskin President Akufo-Addo with a chieftaincy title at the Gbewa Palace.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Damba festival has been made possible due to the fact that Dagbon has witnessed relative peace in recent times.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG-20191116-WA0034-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252712\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>Over thousands of sons and daughters of Dagbon from the diaspora and across the country have trooped to Yendi to celebrate this year\u2019s Damba festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Damba festival is one of the most celebrated festivals in northern Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM Eric Kombat, Yendi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has arrived in Yendi for this year\u2019s Damba festival which is celebrated by the King of Dagbon, Ya Na Abukari II. The President was accompanied by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley and several dignitaries including ambassadors and commissioners. The King of Dagbon, Ya Na Abukari II is expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nana Addo Arrives In Yendi For 2019 Damba Festival - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/16\/nana-addo-arrives-in-yendi-for-2019-damba-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nana Addo Arrives In Yendi For 2019 Damba Festival - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has arrived in Yendi for this year\u2019s Damba festival which is celebrated by the King of Dagbon, Ya Na Abukari II. 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