{"id":1266591,"date":"2022-12-17T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/ghanas-ambassador-settles-doubt-on-akufo-addo-burkina-claims\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T13:30:48","slug":"ghanas-ambassador-settles-doubt-on-akufo-addo-burkina-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/17\/ghanas-ambassador-settles-doubt-on-akufo-addo-burkina-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s ambassador settles &#8216;doubt&#8217; on Akufo-Addo Burkina claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"578\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Antony Blinken Akufo-Addo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Antony-Blinken-Akufo-Addo-696x578.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"578\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Antony-Blinken-Akufo-Addo-696x578.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Antony Blinken Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Burkina Faso Boniface Gambila Adagbila has explained to Burkina Faso officials that the statement made by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was not intended to condemn Ouagadougou.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said Ghana\u2019s president only sought to draw the interest of development partners to the terrorist activities in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Gambila had to explain this to the Burkina Faso Minister Delegate in charge of Regional Cooperation, Karamoko Jean Marie Traore, after he was summoned.<\/p>\n<p>The summon on Friday followed President Akufo-Addo\u2019s concerns about the presence of Russian mercenaries in southern Burkina Faso, on Ghana\u2019s northern border.<\/p>\n<p>He said the mercenaries \u2013 Wagner group \u2013 have been given a mine as payment.<\/p>\n<p>But Ambassador Gambila explained that the comments were \u201cconditional\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the explanations, Minister Traore said Ghana could have consulted with Burkinab\u00e8 authorities on the issue to get the right information before going public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been more interesting to initiate a dialogue between participating and non-participating African countries as a prelude to this summit of the United States of America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties agreed to strengthen their bonds of solidarity and brotherhood.<\/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>Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Burkina Faso Boniface Gambila Adagbila has explained to Burkina Faso officials that the statement made by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was not intended to condemn Ouagadougou. He said Ghana\u2019s president only sought to draw the interest of development partners to the terrorist activities in Burkina Faso. Ambassador Gambila had to explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266591","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\/1266591","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=1266591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}