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.

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 ministers

Ministers of External Affairs

Number	Minister	Took office	Left office	Government	Party
1	Kwame Nkrumah (MP)	1957	1958	Nkrumah government	Convention Peoples' Party
2	Kojo Botsio (MP)	1958	1959
3	Ako Adjei (MP)	1959	1960
4	Imoru Egala (MP)[1]	1960	1961

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Number	Minister	Took office	Left office	Government	Party
1	Ako Adjei (MP)	1961	1962	Nkrumah government	Convention Peoples' Party
2	Kwame Nkrumah	1962	1963
3	Kojo Botsio (MP)	1963	1965
4	Alex Quaison-Sackey	1965	24 February 1966
5	Lt. Gen. Joseph A. Ankrah	1966	1967	National Liberation Council	Military government
6	John Willie Kofi Harlley	1967	1968
7	Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)	1969	1969	Busia government	Progress Party
8	Victor Owusu (MP)	1969	1969
9	Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)	1969	1969
10	Victor Owusu (MP)	1969	1971
11	William Ofori Atta (MP)	1971	13 January 1972
12	Major General Nathan Apea Aferi	1972	1972	National Redemption Council	Military government
13	Lt. Colonel Kwame R.M. Baah	1972	1975
14	Colonel Roger Felli	1975	4 June 1979	Supreme Military Council
15	Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi[2]	1979	24 September 1979	Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
16	Isaac Chinebuah	1979	31 December 1981	Limann government	Peoples National Party
17	Obed Asamoah	1982	6 January 1993	Provisional National Defence Council	Military government
18		7 January 1993	1997	Rawlings government	National Democratic Congress
19	Kwamena Ahwoi (acting)[1]	1997	1997
20	James Victor Gbeho	1997	6 January 2001
21	Hackman Owusu-Agyeman (MP)	2001	2003	Kufuor government	New Patriotic Party
22	Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (MP)	2003	July 2007
23	Akwasi Osei-Adjei (MP)[3]	2007	7 January 2009
24	Muhammad Mumuni	2009	24 July 2012	Mills government	National Democratic Congress
		24 July 2012	6 January 2013	Mahama government
25	Hanna Tetteh (MP)[4]	30 January 2013	6 January 2017
26	Shirley Ayorkor Botchway (MP)[5]	28 January 2017	6 January 2025	Akufo-Addo government	New Patriotic Party
27	Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa	7 February 2025[6][7]	incumbent	Mahama government from 2025	National Democratic Congress (Ghana)

See also

• Africa portal

• Ministers of the Ghanaian Government
• List of current foreign ministers
• Foreign relations of Ghana
• List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Ghana

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.
6. 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.
7. "Mahama swears in Sam George, Ablakwa, Akandoh, 14 other ministers". Modern Ghana. 7 February 2025. Retrieved 12 February 2025.

External links and sources

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, official Website
• Current Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Ghana government website
• Rulers.org - Foreign Ministers