{"id":189520,"date":"2025-01-24T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-steps-up-efforts-to-mend-regional-ties-with-sahel-alliance-appointment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:17:12","slug":"west-africa-ghana-steps-up-efforts-to-mend-regional-ties-with-sahel-alliance-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-steps-up-efforts-to-mend-regional-ties-with-sahel-alliance-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ghana Steps Up Efforts to Mend Regional Ties With Sahel Alliance Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em> Ghana&#8217;s President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former national security chief as envoy to the alliance formed by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, signalling his administration&#8217;s intention to mend ties with the three military-led nations. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Larry Gbevlo-Lartey has been appointed to liaise with the three-nation Alliance of Sahel States (AES) which includes Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The presidency also said that Mahama named former minister of communication Edward Omane Boamah as defence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230032.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former national security chief as envoy to the alliance formed by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, signalling his administration&#8217;s intention to mend ties with the three military-led nations. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey has been appointed to liaise with the three-nation Alliance of Sahel States (AES) which includes Burkina Faso, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,12864,6465,6357,4508,4509,11069,257,4268,6346,254,9150,7051,4375],"class_list":["post-189520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alliance","tag-appointment","tag-efforts","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mend","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-sahel","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps","tag-ties","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}