Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)

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.

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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 Ghanaian foreign ministers

External Affairs

Number Minister Took office Left office Government Party
1Kwame Nkrumah (MP)19571958Nkrumah governmentConvention Peoples' Party
2Kojo Botsio (MP)19581959
3Ako Adjei (MP)19591960
4Imoru Egala (MP)[1]19601961

Foreign Affairs

Number Minister Took office Left office Government Party
1Ako Adjei (MP)19611962Nkrumah governmentConvention Peoples' Party
2Kwame Nkrumah19621963
3Kojo Botsio (MP)19631965
4Alex Quaison-Sackey196524 February 1966
5Lt. Gen. Joseph A. Ankrah19661967National Liberation CouncilMilitary government
6John Willie Kofi Harlley19671968
7Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)19691969Busia governmentProgress Party
8Victor Owusu (MP)19691969
9Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)19691969
10Victor Owusu (MP)19691971
11William Ofori Atta (MP)197113 January 1972
12Major General Nathan Apea Aferi19721972National Redemption CouncilMilitary government
13Lt. Colonel Kwame R.M. Baah19721975
14Colonel Roger Felli19754 June 1979Supreme Military Council
15Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi[2]197924 September 1979Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
16Isaac Chinebuah197931 December 1981Limann governmentPeoples National Party
17Obed Asamoah19827 January 1993Provisional National Defence CouncilMilitary government
187 January 19931997Rawlings governmentNational Democratic Congress
19Kwamena Ahwoi(acting)[1]19971997
20James Victor Gbeho19977 January 2001
21Hackman Owusu-Agyeman (MP)20012003Kufuor governmentNew Patriotic Party
22Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (MP)2003July 2007
23Akwasi Osei-Adjei[3] (MP)20077 January 2009
24Muhammad Mumuni200924 July 2012Mills governmentNational Democratic Congress
24 July 20127 January 2013Mahama government
25Hanna Tetteh (MP)[4]30 January 20136 January 2017
26Shirley Ayorkor Botchway (MP)[5]28 January 2017IncumbentAkufo-Addo governmentNew Patriotic Party

See also

Notes
  1. "Foreign ministers E-K". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. "Full list of Ministers and Regional Ministers out". General News of Tuesday, 31 July 2007. Ghana Home Page. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
  4. "Parliament approves first batch of Ministers". General news. Ghana Home Page. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. "Nana Addo swears in 12 ministers". Ghanaweb. Ghanaweb. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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