{"id":314631,"date":"2017-04-28T06:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314631"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:35:51","slug":"adama-barrow-to-visit-ghana-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314631","title":{"rendered":"Adama Barrow to visit Ghana today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambian President, Adama Barrow will today [Friday] pay a day\u2019s visit to Ghana where he is expected to hold bilateral talks with President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff house.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin told\u00a0<strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Gambian leader is also in Ghana to thank President Akufo-Addo for the role he played in ensuring that democracy was restored in his country.<\/p>\n<p>There had been heightened tensions in The Gambia, after long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh, rejected the results of their December 1, 2016 election, weeks after he had conceded defeat to the opposition leader, Adama Barrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/94723750_6763070c-ed5c-420d-9747-d8539d08024f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-295652\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/94723750_6763070c-ed5c-420d-9747-d8539d08024f.jpg\" alt=\"Barrow\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yahya Jammeh <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/20\/gambias-yahya-jammeh-agrees-to-step-down\/\">eventually\u00a0stepped<\/a><\/strong><\/span> down under pressure from ECOWAS and the AU.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana contributed 208 soldiers to the ECOWAS mission with a mandate to keep the peace in The Gambia amidst the post-election impasse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Adama Barrow] is here basically to thank President Akufo-Addo for the intervention he made during the post-electoral impasse that ensued in The Gambia,\u201d Mr. Arhin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana, together with Senegal and Nigeria sent troops to enforce the will of the Gambian people and that virtually resulted in him being inaugurated and installed as the President of Gambia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Barrow is also here \u201cto have bilateral discussions as to how the two countries can cooperate in terms of areas of trade and other bilateral relations that two counties may want to have under the leadership of the two presidents,\u201d Mr. Arhin added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambian President, Adama Barrow will today [Friday] pay a day\u2019s visit to Ghana where he is expected to hold bilateral talks with President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff house. Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin told\u00a0Citi News, the Gambian leader is also in Ghana to thank President Akufo-Addo for the role he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":295688,"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":[1],"tags":[2692,3,3239],"class_list":["post-314631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adama-barrow","tag-ghana-news","tag-the-gambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314631","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=314631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}