{"id":12959,"date":"2014-03-06T07:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T07:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rawlings-attacks-au-over-silence-voicelessness\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T07:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T07:47:43","slug":"rawlings-attacks-au-over-silence-voicelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rawlings-attacks-au-over-silence-voicelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings Attacks AU over &#8216;Silence &#038; Voicelessness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4472 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cbn-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Ghana\u2019s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has in a statement to mark the 57th anniversary of the country\u2019s independence called on the African Union to be assertive on global issues. }} <\/p>\n<p>Mr Rawlings said: \u201cThe hypocrisy and inconsistency demonstrated by some of the superpowers in the Ukrainian affair is a serious insult to the intelligence of the world.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDavid Cameron advocated going slow on economic sanctions against Russia and using the channel of diplomacy. This suggestion is the very least that should have been heard from the African Union. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe silence and voicelessness of Africa and the Non-Aligned Movement is a serious indictment of the aspirations of the developing world to see a truly free and just world. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arbitrary manner in which unipolar authority has been exercised by some of the superpowers cannot be allowed to continue because it is injurious to global stability.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat other evidence do we need to demonstrate that the world would be a better, just and stable place with the restoration of a more enlightened bipolar leadership? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we can all see the consequences of allowing the near demise of the Non-Alignment Movement. Ukraine has become the pivot and test case of the transition the world is experiencing.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll end up in a continuation of unipolar arbitrariness or with a more responsible bipolar leadership.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cRussia can\u2019t afford to fail in the world\u2019s quest to attain the balanced leadership needed in an enlightened and responsible bipolar world.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI wish our 6th of March Independence Day, the spirit of June 4th and the spirit of December 31st.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Ghana\u2019s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has in a statement to mark the 57th anniversary of the country\u2019s independence called on the African Union to be assertive on global issues. }} Mr Rawlings said: \u201cThe hypocrisy and inconsistency demonstrated by some of the superpowers in the Ukrainian affair is a serious insult to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000050760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000050760,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12959.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12959.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12959.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12959.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12959.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12959.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000050760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}