{"id":166350,"date":"2015-11-12T12:09:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=166350"},"modified":"2015-11-12T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:09:11","slug":"migration-not-new-to-africa-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=166350","title":{"rendered":"Migration not new to Africa &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Mahama on Wednesday participated in a Summit on Migration in the Maltese city of Valletta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attended by many other African and EU leaders, the two-day summit is a platform for the leaders to exchange views and take decisions on the challenges and opportunities of migration and mobility between the two continents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in Paris ahead of the Valletta Summit, President Mahama noted that &#8220;migration is not new to Africa. Within our countries our people migrate. I have Ghanaians in Gabon, I have Guineans in Ghana, I have Malians in Ghana, I have Nigerians in Ghana, I have Ghanaians in Nigeria, I have Ghanaians in Cote d\u2019Ivoire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mahama-in-malta2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166352 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mahama-in-malta2.png\" alt=\"mahama in malta2\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mahama-in-malta2.png 720w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mahama-in-malta2-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Africans \u200bhe argued, \u200bmigrate to seek opportunity and \u200b&#8221;\u200bif we create growth poles in Africa that provide that opportunity in Africa they would have no reason to migrate to another continent to look for opportunity.\u200b&#8221;\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Photo credit: Flagstaff House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama on Wednesday participated in a Summit on Migration in the Maltese city of Valletta. Attended by many other African and EU leaders, the two-day summit is a platform for the leaders to exchange views and take decisions on the challenges and opportunities of migration and mobility between the two continents. Speaking in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":166351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-166350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}