{"id":83243,"date":"2026-01-08T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83243"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:18:49","slug":"ghanas-ex-finance-minister-ken-ofori-atta-detained-by-us-immigration-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/ghanas-ex-finance-minister-ken-ofori-atta-detained-by-us-immigration-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s ex-finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta detained by US immigration authorities"},"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\/AA1TO9vM.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"FILE - Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana's then-finance minister, speaks during the G-24 news conference in Washington on April 19, 2018.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghana\u2019s former finance minister Ken Ofori Atta has been detained by US authorities, his lawyer said late on Wednesday.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/ghana-s-ex-finance-minister-ken-ofori-atta-detained-by-us-immigration-authorities\/ar-AA1TNXRw?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=695fe5f540214b1086f64a6c11335fb9&amp;ei=20\"> Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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\u2019s former finance minister Ken Ofori Atta has been detained by US authorities, his lawyer said late on Wednesday. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83243","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\/06\/Ken-Ofori-Atta.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83243","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=83243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83244,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83243\/revisions\/83244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}