{"id":1265040,"date":"2022-12-14T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/lets-stop-being-beggars-akufo-addo-to-african-leaders\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:05:13","slug":"lets-stop-being-beggars-akufo-addo-to-african-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/lets-stop-being-beggars-akufo-addo-to-african-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s stop being beggars &#8211; Akufo-Addo to African leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"452\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Akufo-Addo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Akufo-Addo-696x452.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"452\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Akufo-Addo-696x452.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged African leaders to desist from begging for aid and rather invest their resources on the continent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said that is what can earn the continent some respect.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo made these remarks during the opening of the US-Africa Leaders\u2019 Summit in Washington DC on Tuesday, December 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we stop being beggars and spend African money inside the continent, Africa will not need to ask for respect from anyone,\u201d he charged fellow leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will get the respect we deserve. If we make it prosperous as it should be, respect will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NAkufoAddo<\/a> urges African leaders to stop borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>More on https:\/\/t.co\/0F6LNLJUpL.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3NewsGH?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3NewsGH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s38xwgQgvp\">pic.twitter.com\/s38xwgQgvp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #3NewsGH (@3NewsGH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3NewsGH\/status\/1602994335355641857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s leader believes Africans are more resilient, especially outside the continent and that can be channeled onto the continent to make it work.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".thsvmbbge0.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6399887fd26f445dea945dce.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">\u201cAfricans are more resilient outside the continent than inside. We must bear in mind that to the outside world, [there\u2019s] nothing like Nigeria, Ghana or Kenya, we are simply Africans. Our destiny as people depends on each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged African leaders to desist from begging for aid and rather invest their resources on the continent. He said that is what can earn the continent some respect. President Akufo-Addo made these remarks during the opening of the US-Africa Leaders\u2019 Summit in Washington DC on Tuesday, December 13. \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265040","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=1265040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}