Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey

Ghana's Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has been appointed as the new Commonwealth Secretary-General...

Ever since he came to power President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been holding meetings with Baroness Scotland who has just been replaced as Commonwealth Secretary-General by Ghana's Shirley Botchwey (AC Vol 65 No 22 Race tightens as African contenders vie for top post)...

Ghana's Foreign Minister Shirley Botchwey Lesotho's former Trade and Finance Minister Joshua Setipa and Gambia's former Foreign Minister Mamadou Tangara are the top three candidates in the race to become the next Secretary-General of the Commonwealth...

A team from the Economic Community of West African States led by Ghanaian foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has been in Abidjan this week on self-proclaimed 'preventive diplomacy'...

They are Ken Ofori-Atta Finance; Gloria Akuffo Attorney General; Alan Kyerematen Trade and Industry; Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey Foreign Affairs; and Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko Energy...

Other key ministerial appointments in the offing include another veteran of Kufuor's team Shirley Botchwey at Foreign Affairs and Dominic Nitiwul at Defence...

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey who is handling Foreign Affairs for the NPP transition team is also a frontrunner for foreign minister...

Frontrunners include Cecilia Abena Dapaah Chairperson of the Board of the profitable state-owned Cocoa Processing Company and personal aide to the President; Frema Akosua Osei-Opare member of parliament for Kufuor's home area; Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey who easily won Weija in Greater Accra...