Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)

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The Minister for Foreign Affairs is a government official responsible for overseeing the foreign policy and international diplomacy of Ghana. Currently Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the minister is usually one of the most senior members of Cabinet. Under pre-1992 military regimes in Ghana, the title; minister has been replaced with commissioner or secretary.

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During the government rule of Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party between January 2017 and January 2025, the ministry was combined with other portfolios to form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration under Shirley Ayorkor Botchway. On 18 September 2025, the ministry awarded diplomatic passport to the following Ghanaians, Ibrahim Mahama, Wade Maya, Rocky Dawuni, Anita Erskine and Dentaa. [1]

List of ministers

Ministers of External Affairs

NumberMinisterTook officeLeft officeGovernmentParty
1 Kwame Nkrumah (MP)19571958 Nkrumah government Convention Peoples' Party
2 Kojo Botsio (MP)19581959
3 Ako Adjei (MP)19591960
4 Imoru Egala (MP) [2] 19601961

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

NumberMinisterTook officeLeft officeGovernmentParty
1 Ako Adjei (MP)19611962 Nkrumah government Convention Peoples' Party
2 Kwame Nkrumah 19621963
3 Kojo Botsio (MP)19631965
4 Alex Quaison-Sackey 196524 February 1966
5 Lt. Gen. Joseph A. Ankrah 19661967 National Liberation Council Military government
6 John Willie Kofi Harlley 19671968
7 Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)19691969 Busia government Progress Party
8 Victor Owusu (MP)19691969
9 Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)19691969
10 Victor Owusu (MP)19691971
11 William Ofori Atta (MP)197113 January 1972
12 Major General Nathan Apea Aferi 19721972 National Redemption Council Military government
13 Lt. Colonel Kwame R.M. Baah 19721975
14 Colonel Roger Felli 19754 June 1979 Supreme Military Council
15Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi [3] 197924 September 1979 Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
16 Isaac Chinebuah 197931 December 1981 Limann government Peoples National Party
17 Obed Asamoah 19826 January 1993 Provisional National Defence Council Military government
187 January 19931997 Rawlings government National Democratic Congress
19 Kwamena Ahwoi
(acting) [2] 		19971997
20 James Victor Gbeho 19976 January 2001
21 Hackman Owusu-Agyeman (MP)20012003 Kufuor government New Patriotic Party
22 Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (MP)2003July 2007
23 Akwasi Osei-Adjei (MP) [4] 20077 January 2009
24 Muhammad Mumuni 200924 July 2012 Mills government National Democratic Congress
24 July 20126 January 2013 Mahama government
25 Hanna Tetteh (MP) [5] 30 January 20136 January 2017
26 Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey (MP) [6] 28 January 20176 January 2025 Akufo-Addo government New Patriotic Party
27 Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa 7 February 2025 [7] [8] incumbent Mahama government from 2025 National Democratic Congress (Ghana)

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Wode Maya, Rocky Dawumi, Dentaa, two others granted diplomatic passports". Citi Newsroom. 17 September 2025. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Foreign ministers E-K". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Full list of Ministers and Regional Ministers out". General News of Tuesday, 31 July 2007. Ghana Home Page. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
  5. ↑ "Parliament approves first batch of Ministers". General news. Ghana Home Page. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Nana Addo swears in 12 ministers". Ghanaweb. Ghanaweb. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Iddi Yire (8 February 2025). "Mahama swears in 17 new Ministers, declaring no room for pomposity in his government". Ghana News Agency. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Mahama swears in Sam George, Ablakwa, Akandoh, 14 other ministers". Modern Ghana. 7 February 2025. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
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