{"id":1250084,"date":"2022-11-14T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/14\/twitters-decision-to-close-its-africa-office-unfortunate-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:24:27","slug":"twitters-decision-to-close-its-africa-office-unfortunate-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/14\/twitters-decision-to-close-its-africa-office-unfortunate-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s decision to close its Africa office unfortunate \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo waits to speak during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (Hannah McKay\/Pool via AP)\/LBJ198\/21306435178662\/POOL PHOTO\/2111021310<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>President Akufo-Addo says the closure of Twitter\u2019s Africa office is unfortunate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the presence of the technology company was one that was desired strongly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, President Akufo-Addo said he understands the action as it\u2019s part of a global restructuring of the company.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\u2019s decision to close its Africa office unfortunate \u2013 Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032201364 lazy\"  data- title=\"Twitter\u2019s decision to close its Africa office unfortunate \u2013 Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was not too long ago that it was up, but I understand it is part and parcel of a global restructuring of a company that is taking place under the new owner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that is very unfortunate that, that should take place. The more organisations like that have local outlets, the better for all of us,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>Following controversial $44 billion takeover by Elon Musk, there has been massive lay offs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Twitter.jpeg\" alt=\"Twitter\u2019s decision to close its Africa office unfortunate \u2013 Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032074123 lazy\"  data- title=\"Twitter\u2019s decision to close its Africa office unfortunate \u2013 Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>These layoffs also affected almost all its staff in Ghana, which was home to its only office in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The manner of the lay-offs was criticised with some accusing the new Twitter boss of discrimination.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/musk.png\" alt=\"Twitter\u2019s decision to close its Africa office unfortunate \u2013 Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032182099 lazy\"  data- title=\"Twitter\u2019s decision to close its Africa office unfortunate \u2013 Akufo-Addo\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The staff received messages about the end of their contracts to their personal accounts, after being denied access to work emails.<\/p>\n<p>This action followed news Mr Musk intends to eliminate nearly 75 percent of Twitter\u2019s staff in an effort to pay down a debt burden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo waits to speak during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (Hannah McKay\/Pool via AP)\/LBJ198\/21306435178662\/POOL PHOTO\/2111021310 President Akufo-Addo says the closure of Twitter\u2019s Africa office is unfortunate.\u00a0 According to him, the presence of the technology company was one that was desired strongly.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[671,648,4481,2277,87,13473,12436],"class_list":["post-1250084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-africa","tag-akufoaddo","tag-close","tag-decision","tag-office","tag-twitters","tag-unfortunate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250084","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=1250084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}