{"id":12763,"date":"2025-08-21T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:58:56","slug":"silence-the-guns-reform-economies-to-attract-investors-mahama-to-african-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12763","title":{"rendered":"Silence the guns, reform economies to attract investors \u2013 Mahama to African Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama has called on African leaders to prioritise peace, economic stability, and good governance as the foundation for attracting sustainable investment into the continent.<\/p>\n

According to him, Africa\u2019s ability to compete globally will not depend on wishful thinking, but on deliberate reforms that create the right environment for trade and business.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, August 21, 2025, the president noted that partnerships with the international community remain important, but the ultimate responsibility rests with African governments.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile partnerships such as what we are forging here at TICAD 9 are important, a lot of the responsibility rests on the shoulders of African leaders to create an environment that is conducive to trade and investments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

President Mahama stressed that Africa must pursue mutually beneficial partnerships while undertaking the \u201chard and necessary reforms\u201d needed to make the continent a credible investment destination.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish to partner with any nation of the world on the basis of a win-win. But let us not kid ourselves. Trade investment will not come to Africa merely because we wish it. We must undertake the hard and necessary reforms to make Africa an attractive destination for investment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He underscored peace and stability as key to development, warning that conflicts and weak governance structures deter investors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why we must silence the guns and stop the fighting. That is why we must reform our economies and make them more stable and predictable. And it is why we must reform our governance and make public service accountable and free of corruption,\u201d President Mahama stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama has called on African leaders to prioritise peace, economic stability, and good governance as the foundation for attracting sustainable investment into the continent. According to him, Africa\u2019s ability to compete globally will not depend on wishful thinking, but on deliberate reforms that create the right environment for trade and business. Speaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3525,41,3507],"tags":[3759,3948,3947],"class_list":["post-12763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-economy","category-general-news","category-national","tag-ghana-news","tag-prez-mahama","tag-tokyo-international-conference-on-african-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12767,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions\/12767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}