{"id":295708,"date":"2017-02-19T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295708"},"modified":"2017-02-19T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:37:11","slug":"nana-addo-at-barrows-inauguration-visits-ghanaians-in-gambia-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295708","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo at Barrow&#8217;s inauguration, visits Ghanaians in Gambia [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend saw President Nana Akufo-Addo head to The Gambia, where he\u00a0attended the inauguration ceremony of President Adama Barrow\u00a0on Saturday, February 18.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295694\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-at-Gambia-Barrow-swear-in-8.jpg\" alt=\"nana-addo-at-gambia-barrow-swear-in-8\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-295691 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-at-Gambia-Barrow-swear-in-5.jpg\" alt=\"nana-addo-at-gambia-barrow-swear-in-5\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"js_19\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>Former President John Mahama was also in The Gambia following his role in the\u00a0successful ECOWAS mediation process that made the day possible following the country&#8217;s political crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-295689 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-at-Gambia-Barrow-swear-in-3.jpg\" alt=\"nana-addo-at-gambia-barrow-swear-in-3\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295686\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-at-Gambia-Barrow-swear-in-9.jpg\" alt=\"nana-addo-at-gambia-barrow-swear-in-9\" width=\"960\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"js_19\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>There had been heightened tensions in the country, after long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh, decided to reject results of their December 1 election, weeks after he had conceded defeat to the opposition leader, Adama Barrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295690\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-at-Gambia-Barrow-swear-in-4.jpg\" alt=\"nana-addo-at-gambia-barrow-swear-in-4\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"js_19\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"_3x-2\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_295693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295693\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-295693 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-at-Gambia-Barrow-swear-in-7.jpg\" alt=\"President Akufo-Addo with the ECOWAS Chairperson, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-295693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Akufo-Addo with the ECOWAS Chairperson, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whilst in The Gambia, President Nana Akufo-Addo also interacted with members of the Ghanaian community resident\u00a0there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-295702 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nana-Addo-in-Gambia-1.jpg\" alt=\"nana-addo-in-gambia-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295696\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16806913_10155031046754836_8580989968346487048_n.jpg\" alt=\"16806913_10155031046754836_8580989968346487048_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"js_19\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"_3x-2\">\n<p>He followed that up with a meeting with Ghana&#8217;s contingent of 210 soldiers, who are part of ECOWAS&#8217; 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Former President John Mahama was also in The Gambia following his role in the\u00a0successful ECOWAS mediation process that made the day possible following the country&#8217;s political crisis. There had been heightened tensions [&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":[11],"tags":[3188,3,156,3239],"class_list":["post-295708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-barrow","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-addo","tag-the-gambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295708","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=295708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}