{"id":289150,"date":"2017-01-28T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=289150"},"modified":"2017-01-28T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T21:14:02","slug":"akufo-addo-swears-in-ayorkor-botchway-in-ethiopia-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=289150","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo swears in Ayorkor-Botchway in Ethiopia [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has sworn into office the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway.<\/p>\n<p>He swore her in at a short ceremony held at Ghana\u2019s embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/28\/akufo-addo-swears-in-ayorkor-botchway-in-ethiopia-photos\/ayorkor-botchway-sworn-in-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-289153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-289153\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ayorkor-Botchway-sworn-in-3.jpeg\" alt=\"ayorkor-botchway-sworn-in-3\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president had earlier on Friday, sworn into office 12 out of 13 ministers whose nominations were approved by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-289155 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ayorkor-Botchway-sworn-in-1.jpeg\" alt=\"ayorkor-botchway-sworn-in-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Madam Ayorkor Botcwey, who was outside the country at the time of the swearing-in ceremony had to be sworn in separately in Ethiopia where she was representing Ghana at a meeting of \u00a0Foreign Affairs Ministers in preparation for the AU summit from 29th to 31st of January, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/28\/akufo-addo-swears-in-ayorkor-botchway-in-ethiopia-photos\/ayorkor-botchway-sworn-in-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-289154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-289154\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ayorkor-Botchway-sworn-in-2.jpeg\" alt=\"ayorkor-botchway-sworn-in-2\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Presidency, Nana Akufo-Addo who arrived in the Ethiopian capital on Saturday [January 28] will \u201cprior to the commencement of the Ordinary Session of the Assembly on Monday, attend a retreat for the Heads of States on Sunday, January 29, 2017 immediately after a breakfast meeting with the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo will return to Ghana on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has sworn into office the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway. He swore her in at a short ceremony held at Ghana\u2019s embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The president had earlier on Friday, sworn into office 12 out of 13 ministers whose nominations were approved by Parliament. Madam Ayorkor Botcwey, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,11],"tags":[8,3538,3],"class_list":["post-289150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-akufo-addo","tag-ayorkor-botchway","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289150","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=289150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}