{"id":75667,"date":"2025-05-26T16:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75667"},"modified":"2025-05-26T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:34:48","slug":"ghana-temporarily-closes-embassy-in-washington-d-c-over-corruption-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/26\/ghana-temporarily-closes-embassy-in-washington-d-c-over-corruption-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana temporarily closes embassy in Washington D.C. over corruption scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1FuGVr.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=426&amp;y=156&amp;s=38&amp;d=38\" alt=\"Former Ghana President and presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, gestures, at the party's final rally, in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Dec\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ghana has temporarily shut down its embassy in Washington, D.C., after a major corruption scandal involving visa fraud and unauthorised payments was uncovered by a special audit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/ghana-temporarily-closes-embassy-in-washington-d-c-over-corruption-scandal\/ar-AA1FuJpl?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d8eed89cee2a4f29863c4f56060974d1&amp;ei=27\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ghana has temporarily shut down its embassy in Washington, D.C., after a major corruption scandal involving visa fraud and unauthorised payments was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ghana_Embassy-Washington.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75669,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667\/revisions\/75669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}