Accra, Ghana: The US Embassy in Ghana is apologising after a staff member sent what's being described as "an errant tweet" criticising the president from the official Embassy Twitter account.
Ghanaian President John Mahama had tweeted about the country's financial woes, saying that "as a people, we have had to make sacrifices" and that the results of those cutbacks would start to show soon.
A post from the US Embassy's Twitter account later retorted to the president: "And what sacrifices are you making?"
In an apology made public on Monday, the US Embassy in Accra says it has apologised to Ghana's president and is also apologising to the Ghanaian people. It says that an embassy staff member mixed up a personal Twitter account with that of the embassy's.
Ghanaian President John Mahama had tweeted about the country's financial woes, saying that "as a people, we have had to make sacrifices" and that the results of those cutbacks would start to show soon.
A post from the US Embassy's Twitter account later retorted to the president: "And what sacrifices are you making?"
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