{"id":1265443,"date":"2022-12-15T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/akufo-addo-urges-african-leaders-to-stop-begging\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:24:36","slug":"akufo-addo-urges-african-leaders-to-stop-begging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/akufo-addo-urges-african-leaders-to-stop-begging\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo urges African leaders to stop &#8216;begging&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"416\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-14_121024179.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Mr Akufo-Addo has urged greater solidarity among Africans\/ Credit: AFP\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Akufo-Addo has urged greater solidarity among Africans\/ Credit: AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that African countries must wean themselves off \u201cbegging\u201d the West to earn global respect and change poor perceptions about the continent.<\/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, we will get the respect we deserve. If we make it prosperous as it should be, respect will follow,\u201d\u00a0Mr Akufo-Addo said.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks during the opening of the US-Africa Leaders\u2019 Summit in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0Akufo-Addo urged greater solidarity among Africans to address shared aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>\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\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President said that the continent had skills and manpower but needed concerted political will to make \u201cAfrica work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Presdient Akufo-Addo\u2019s remarks came on the day that the International Monetary Fund agreed to give Ghana a $3bn (\u00a32.4bn) loan to alleviate an unprecedented economic downturn in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of African leaders are in Washington to discuss cooperation with the US amid growing Chinese and Russian influence on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"aP8N6lujHTk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"November Inflation hits 50.3% \u2013 Dwadie - Adom TV News (14-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aP8N6lujHTk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Akufo-Addo has urged greater solidarity among Africans\/ Credit: AFP President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that African countries must wean themselves off \u201cbegging\u201d the West to earn global respect and change poor perceptions about the continent. \u201cIf we stop being beggars and spend African money inside the continent, Africa will not need to ask for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265443","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\/1265443","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=1265443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}