{"id":1266259,"date":"2022-12-16T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/burkina-faso-summons-ghanas-envoy-over-akufo-addos\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:55:23","slug":"burkina-faso-summons-ghanas-envoy-over-akufo-addos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/burkina-faso-summons-ghanas-envoy-over-akufo-addos\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso summons Ghana\u2019s envoy over Akufo-Addo&#8217;s&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Boniface-Gambila-Ghana-envoy-to-Burkina-Faso_1680x1050-696x435.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Boniface-Gambila Ghana envoy to Burkina Faso_1680x1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The government of Burkina Faso has summoned Ghana\u2019s ambassador, that country\u2019s state information agency has said.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface Gambilla was summoned by the government of Apollinaire Kyelem over recent allegations made by\u00a0President\u00a0Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo, in a recent meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had raised concerns about the presence of Russian mercenaries on Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Russian mercenaries are on our northern border,\u201d Ghana\u2019s president complained to the US Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurkina Faso has now entered into an arrangement to go AWOL with Mali in employing the Wagner forces there. I believe the mines in southern Burkina have been allocated to them as a form of payment for their services. Prime Minister of Burkina Faso in the last 10 days has been in Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>981 parcels of suspected marijuana intercepted near Burkina Faso border<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden prepared to meet Putin to end Russia-Ukraine war<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But it is unclear if an official agreement has been signed between Burkina Faso officials and the Wagner group, who are said to be helping in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The group is a mercenary outfit run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The summons is to seek further clarifications on President Akufo-Addo\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Burkinabe ambassador to Ghana has also been recalled over the matter.<\/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=\"X9FJldo2pgY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom Trotro: Which gender takes care of their spouses when sick?  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President Akufo-Addo, in a recent meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had raised concerns about the presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266259","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\/1266259","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=1266259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}