{"id":1673,"date":"2017-12-14T08:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T08:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:58:35","slug":"ghanas-president-surprised-macron-with-a-clear-rejection-of-development-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s president surprised Macron with a clear rejection of development aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After the AU-EU summit in Abidjan, French President Emmanuel Macron visited several African states, including Ghana. But contrary to other African heads of state, Ghana\u2019s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has a clear vision of how to make his country independent from development aid. EURACTIV Germany reports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can no longer pursue a policy for our countries and regions that is based on the support given by the West, France or the European Union. This has not worked and it will not work,\u201d Akufo-Addo told a joint press conference with Macron, who was visibly surprised by the statements made by the Ghanaian president.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/development-policy\/news\/ghanas-president-surprised-macron-with-a-clear-rejection-of-development-aid\/\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\">EURACTIV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the AU-EU summit in Abidjan, French President Emmanuel Macron visited several African states, including Ghana. But contrary to other African heads of state, Ghana\u2019s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has a clear vision of how to make his country &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1673\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,292,411,356,67],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-africa","tag-development","tag-ghana","tag-macron","tag-west-africa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}