{"id":196685,"date":"2025-04-24T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-ready-to-lead-reconciliation-with-alliance-of-sahel-states-president\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:41:32","slug":"west-africa-ghana-ready-to-lead-reconciliation-with-alliance-of-sahel-states-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-ready-to-lead-reconciliation-with-alliance-of-sahel-states-president\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ghana Ready to Lead Reconciliation With Alliance of Sahel States &#8211; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">President John Dramani Mahama has committed Ghana to leading efforts to reknit the fabric of unity with the Alliance of Sahel States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">President Mahama said the decision by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to exit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was a regrettable one which needed to be tactfully addressed with patient diplomacy to restore confidence in the sub-regional body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Speaking at the launch of the 50th anniversary of the ECOWAS in Accra yesterday on the theme &#8220;Stronger&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504240077.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>President John Dramani Mahama has committed Ghana to leading efforts to reknit the fabric of unity with the Alliance of Sahel States. President Mahama said the decision by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to exit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was a regrettable one which needed to be tactfully addressed with patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,12864,4508,4509,7358,257,2450,8479,10292,6346,254,6484,4375],"class_list":["post-196685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alliance","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-president","tag-ready","tag-reconciliation","tag-sahel","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196685","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=196685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}