{"id":198920,"date":"2025-05-27T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mission-in-washington-d-c-closed-down\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:22:54","slug":"ghana-mission-in-washington-d-c-closed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mission-in-washington-d-c-closed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Mission in Washington D.C, Closed Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Ghana&#8217;s embassy in Washington, D.C. has been closed down temporarily to allow for investigations into alleged corrupt practices carried out by a staff of the embassy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The corrupt practices, including illegal extra charges, which had been occurring for nearly five years, were uncovered by a special audit team who assembled a few months ago to investigate alleged corrupt practices at the embassy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A statement issued yesterday under the hand of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Samuel Okudzeto&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505270188.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 embassy in Washington, D.C. has been closed down temporarily to allow for investigations into alleged corrupt practices carried out by a staff of the embassy. The corrupt practices, including illegal extra charges, which had been occurring for nearly five years, were uncovered by a special audit team who assembled a few months ago to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670080:2c56f474205f97813bff5f18735534fb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6851,51454,4508,4509,6161,257,254,4565],"class_list":["post-198920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-closed","tag-d-c","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mission","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670080:2c56f474205f97813bff5f18735534fb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198920","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=198920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}