{"id":37795,"date":"2025-07-18T01:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/?p=37795"},"modified":"2025-07-18T01:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:12:27","slug":"as-the-first-mayor-of-london-to-lead-a-trade-mission-to-africa-it-was-an-honour-to-meet-president-john-mahama-of-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/?p=37795","title":{"rendered":"As the first Mayor of London to lead a trade mission to Africa, it was an honour to meet President John Mahama of Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian Londoners make a vital contribution to our city, and I\u2019m committed to strengthening ties between London and Ghana. \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded<\/p>\n<p>Today, I joined Mayor Michael Kpakpo Allotey as we unveiled plans for a partner memorial to the victims of Transatlantic Slavery in Accra. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37796\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752780186738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1280\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37797\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752782850239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"893\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37798\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752782852757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37799\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752782855513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37800\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752782858235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This historic artwork will directly connect to the landmark memorial we are creating in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian Londoners make a vital contribution to our city, and I\u2019m committed to strengthening ties between London and Ghana. \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Today, I joined Mayor Michael Kpakpo Allotey as we unveiled plans for a partner memorial to the victims of Transatlantic Slavery in Accra. This historic artwork will directly connect to the landmark memorial we are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-38"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37802,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions\/37802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}