{"id":1227748,"date":"2022-10-18T14:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/how-can-the-global-crisis-skip-congo-cote-divoire-togo-and-burkina-faso-and-only-affect-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:23:37","slug":"how-can-the-global-crisis-skip-congo-cote-divoire-togo-and-burkina-faso-and-only-affect-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/how-can-the-global-crisis-skip-congo-cote-divoire-togo-and-burkina-faso-and-only-affect-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can The Global Crisis Skip Congo, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Togo And Burkina Faso And Only Affect Ghana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>A member of the New Democratic Congress, Yayra Koku has questioned if Covid-19 and the Russian -Ukraine war impact seems to have skipped some African countries to affect Ghana only Ghana.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/a4d2c534dbc5469b911074358c33263d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his official Facebook page he wrote;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congo is 10th. My question is<\/p>\n<p>1. Was there COVID-19 in Congo?<\/p>\n<p>2. Is the Ukraine-Russia war not affecting them?<\/p>\n<p>3. Is the global crisis not affecting them? And lastly, Let me borrow Bawumia\u2019s statement in 2016<\/p>\n<p>4. How can the global crisis skip Congo, C\u00f4te D&#8217;Ivoire, Togo, and Burkina Faso and only affect Ghana?&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3feceecf0c394ff7b86fb9ca9b13e68b\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/509094368ef948a28d288fa62668b6e1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yayra Koku shared the above screenshot.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana has been ranked first in the list of countries with highest increase in food prices in the Sub Saharan Africa. Following that a lot of people have lamented on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>According to the government, Ghana is going through economic hardship in different sectors because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing Russian -Ukraine war. Others people disagree with the government and asserts that it is because of poor governance and mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nCovid-19<br \/>\nC\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nUkraine-Russia<br \/>\nYayra Koku<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the New Democratic Congress, Yayra Koku has questioned if Covid-19 and the Russian -Ukraine war impact seems to have skipped some African countries to affect Ghana only Ghana. In a post shared on his official Facebook page he wrote; &#8220;Congo is 10th. My question is 1. Was there COVID-19 in Congo? 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5281,978,12640,2983,1856,2984,979,85,6128,14023,10197],"class_list":["post-1227748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-affect","tag-burkina","tag-congo","tag-cote","tag-crisis","tag-divoire","tag-faso","tag-ghana","tag-global","tag-skip","tag-togo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227748","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=1227748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}