{"id":1265663,"date":"2022-12-15T18:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/joe-biden-buhari-morocco-pm-other-african-leaders-watch-match-in-one-hall\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:21:04","slug":"joe-biden-buhari-morocco-pm-other-african-leaders-watch-match-in-one-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/joe-biden-buhari-morocco-pm-other-african-leaders-watch-match-in-one-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden, Buhari, Morocco PM, other African leaders watch match in one hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-165.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Joe Biden, Buhari, Morocco PM and other African leaders watch match in one hall\"\/><\/div>\n<p>US President Joe Biden on Wednesday kept short a speech to African leaders and joined Morocco\u2019s prime minister to watch the country play in a historic World Cup semifinal against France.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was keenly aware of the World Cup match in Qatar as he addresses nearly 50 heads of state gathered in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you\u2019re saying to yourselves, make it short, Biden, there\u2019s a semifinal game coming up. I get it,\u201d he said to laughter and applause.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He quipped that he saw climate envoy John Kerry, a well-known fan of soccer, nodding in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Biden stayed true to his word, wrapping up shortly after kickoff. He then watched the match with Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and several other leaders attending the summit at central Washington\u2019s convention centre, according to the White House.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-165.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2195814\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>Biden in his speech saluted Morocco for being the first African nation to make it so far in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great honor to watch today\u2019s World Cup match alongside Prime Minister Akhannouch of Morocco. No matter who you\u2019re rooting for, it was remarkable to watch how much this team has been able to achieve,\u201d he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The United States was eliminated earlier in the tournament by The Netherlands.<\/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=\"3N_zbqv5hsM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#NotoGalamsey: Asantehene to summon chiefs whose lands have been invaded by galamsey (14-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3N_zbqv5hsM?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>US President Joe Biden on Wednesday kept short a speech to African leaders and joined Morocco\u2019s prime minister to watch the country play in a historic World Cup semifinal against France. Biden was keenly aware of the World Cup match in Qatar as he addresses nearly 50 heads of state gathered in Washington. \u201cI know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[461,12308,13206,4030,3183,1865,1508,1010,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-1265663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-african","9":"tag-biden","10":"tag-buhari","11":"tag-hall","12":"tag-joe","13":"tag-leaders","14":"tag-match","15":"tag-morocco","16":"tag-watch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265663","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=1265663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}