Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)
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The Minister for Foreign Affairs is the Ghana government official who is responsible for overseeing the country's foreign policy and international diplomacy. The foreign minister is usually one of the most senior members of Cabinet. Under military regimes in Ghana, the title; minister has been replaced with commissioner or secretary.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs since January 2017 has been Honorable
Shirley Ayorkor Botchway. The ministry is at present combined with other portfolios to form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration under the government of Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party
.
List of ministers
Ministers of External Affairs
Number | Minister | Took office | Left office | Government | Party |
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1 | Kwame Nkrumah (MP) | 1957 | 1958 | Nkrumah government | Convention Peoples' Party
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2 | Kojo Botsio (MP) | 1958 | 1959 | ||
3 | Ako Adjei (MP) |
1959 | 1960 | ||
4 | Imoru Egala (MP)[1] | 1960 | 1961 |
Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Number | Minister | Took office | Left office | Government | Party |
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1 | Ako Adjei (MP) |
1961 | 1962 | Nkrumah government | Convention Peoples' Party
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2 | Kwame Nkrumah | 1962 | 1963 | ||
3 | Kojo Botsio (MP) | 1963 | 1965 | ||
4 | Alex Quaison-Sackey | 1965 | 24 February 1966 | ||
5 | Lt. Gen. Joseph A. Ankrah | 1966 | 1967 | National Liberation Council | Military government |
6 | John Willie Kofi Harlley | 1967 | 1968 | ||
7 | Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP) | 1969 | 1969 | Busia government | Progress Party |
8 | Victor Owusu (MP) | 1969 | 1969 | ||
9 | Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP) | 1969 | 1969 | ||
10 | Victor Owusu (MP) | 1969 | 1971 | ||
11 | William Ofori Atta (MP) | 1971 | 13 January 1972 | ||
12 | Major General Nathan Apea Aferi | 1972 | 1972 | National Redemption Council | Military government |
13 | Lt. Colonel Kwame R.M. Baah | 1972 | 1975 | ||
14 | Colonel Roger Felli | 1975 | 4 June 1979 | Supreme Military Council | |
15 | Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi[2] | 1979 | 24 September 1979 | Armed Forces Revolutionary Council | |
16 | Isaac Chinebuah | 1979 | 31 December 1981 | Limann government | Peoples National Party |
17 | Obed Asamoah | 1982 | 7 January 1993 | Provisional National Defence Council | Military government |
18 | 7 January 1993 | 1997 | Rawlings government | National Democratic Congress | |
19 | Kwamena Ahwoi (acting)[1] |
1997 | 1997 | ||
20 | James Victor Gbeho |
1997 | 7 January 2001 | ||
21 | Hackman Owusu-Agyeman (MP) | 2001 | 2003 | Kufuor government | New Patriotic Party |
22 | Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (MP) |
2003 | July 2007 | ||
23 | Akwasi Osei-Adjei (MP)[3] | 2007 | 7 January 2009 | ||
24 | Muhammad Mumuni | 2009 | 24 July 2012 | Mills government | National Democratic Congress |
24 July 2012 | 7 January 2013 | Mahama government | |||
25 | Hanna Tetteh (MP)[4] | 30 January 2013 | 6 January 2017 | ||
26 | Shirley Ayorkor Botchway (MP)[5] |
28 January 2017 | Incumbent | Akufo-Addo government |
New Patriotic Party |
See also
- Ministers of the Ghanaian Government
- List of current foreign ministers
- Foreign relations of Ghana
- List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Ghana
Notes
- ^ a b "Foreign ministers E-K". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi was one of several senior civil servants who acted as ministers of state during the short rule of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council between 4 June 1979 and 24 September 1979.
- ^ "Full list of Ministers and Regional Ministers out". General News of Tuesday, 31 July 2007. Ghana Home Page. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
- ^ "Parliament approves first batch of Ministers". General news. Ghana Home Page. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ "Nana Addo swears in 12 ministers". Ghanaweb. Ghanaweb. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.