{"id":207283,"date":"2016-04-16T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=207283"},"modified":"2016-04-16T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:17:00","slug":"us-asst-sec-of-african-affairs-to-visit-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=207283","title":{"rendered":"US Asst Sec. of African Affairs to visit Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Secretary of African Affairs of the United States of America, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is scheduled to travel to Accra and London from April 17 to April 22, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed in a statement released by the Office of the Spokesperson of the American government.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Linda Thomas-Greenfield will attend the first Think Tank Dialogue roundtable in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Accra, Assistant Secretary Thomas-Greenfield will attend the first U.S.-African Think Tank Dialogue roundtable to discuss governance and democracy issues with senior representatives of prominent African think tanks. While in Ghana, she also will visit\u00a0 a local USAID project for sanitation and wastewater,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>She will then go to London where she will attend a high level security meeting with UK and French partners of the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn London, Assistant Secretary Thomas-Greenfield will attend the biannual P3 High Level Africa Security Meeting with UK and French partners. The meeting will focus on P3 support for African-led peacekeeping, efforts to support Nigeria and the other Lake Chad Basin countries in the fight against Boko Haram as well as P3 support for ongoing AU and UN efforts in Somalia and the Sahel. She will also meet with UK Minister for Africa James Duddridge on the margins of the P3 meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ojsarpong\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ojsarpong<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Secretary of African Affairs of the United States of America, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is scheduled to travel to Accra and London from April 17 to April 22, 2016. This was revealed in a statement released by the Office of the Spokesperson of the American government. According to the statement, Linda Thomas-Greenfield will attend the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":207284,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207283","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}