{"id":207395,"date":"2021-11-04T18:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/white-house-official-visits-ghana-to-discuss-infrastructure-opportunities?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-11-04T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:21:59","slug":"white-house-official-visits-ghana-to-discuss-infrastructure-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/white-house-official-visits-ghana-to-discuss-infrastructure-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Official Visits Ghana to Discuss Infrastructure Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/5d2cc49acad2cb5\/600\/418\" alt=\" U.S. Embassy in Ghana\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh visited Accra this week to discuss President Biden&rsquo;s Build Back Better World initiative with stakeholders and to meet with Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia.&nbsp; Singh&rsquo;s visit to Ghana follows his participation in COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, where President Biden reaffirmed the United States&rsquo; commitment to address the climate crisis while mobilizing investment capital to build infrastructure that drives sustainable economic recovery.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ghana is our first stop in Africa after COP26 to meet with partners about President Biden&rsquo;s Build Back Better World initiative.&nbsp; We will work together to support high-quality, sustainable improvements to address the demand of countries with major infrastructure needs,&rdquo; said Deputy National Security Adviser Singh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Singh&rsquo;s meeting with Vice President Bawumia is a continuation of the close bilateral engagement between the Biden and Akufo-Addo Administrations, which includes U.S. Vice President Harris&rsquo;s meeting at the White House with Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo in September, followed by the recent visit of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While in Accra, Singh also met with infrastructure stakeholders, including companies working in Ghana.&nbsp; As part of his trip to West Africa, Deputy National Security Advisor Singh will visit Dakar, Senegal on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in Ghana.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/1858ca33c6db409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/1858ca33c6db409\" alt=\" U.S. Embassy in Ghana\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/1858ca33c6db409\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh visited Accra this week to discuss President Biden&rsquo;s Build Back Better World initiative with stakeholders and to meet with Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia.&nbsp; Singh&rsquo;s visit to Ghana follows his participation in COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, where President Biden reaffirmed the United States&rsquo; commitment to address the climate crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-207395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-house-official-visits-ghana-to-discuss-infrastructure-opportunities.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}