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Ghana\u2019s Minister of National Security Albert Kan-Dapaah has led a high-level delegation to Burkina Faso to reaffirm their commitment to partner in the fight against terrorism in the West Africa region.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe delegation from Ghana also included security chiefs and officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.<\/p>\nMr Kan-Dapaah conveyed a message\u00a0from President\u00a0Nana Akufo-Addo\u00a0to the Burkinabe leader Ibrahim Traore.<\/p>\n\u201cThe two countries reviewed the strong cooperation between them and clarified to their mutual satisfaction recent reported discussions between Ghana and the United States with regard to the needed partnerships for sustainable peace in the region,\u201d he told the media after the meeting in Ouagadougou on Wednesday 21 December 2022.<\/p>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n\u201cIn that respect, we discussed concrete support that Ghana has advocated for Burkina Faso in the Accra Initiative and ECOWAS and called on West African states to act expeditiously on the matter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\nEarlier, the government of Burkina Faso has summoned Ghana\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\nThat country\u2019s state information agency said Boniface Gambilla was summoned by the government of Apollinaire Kyelem over recent allegations made by\u00a0President\u00a0Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\nPresident Akufo-Addo, in a recent meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had raised concerns about the presence of Russian mercenaries on Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n\u201cToday, Russian mercenaries are on our northern border,\u201d Ghana\u2019s president complained to the US Secretary of State.<\/p>\n\u201cBurkina Faso has now entered into an arrangement to go along with Mali in employing the Wagner forces there. I believe the mines in southern Burkina have been allocated to them as a form of payment for their services. Prime Minister of Burkina Faso in the last 10 days has been in Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\nBut it was unclear if an official agreement had been signed between Burkina Faso officials and the Wagner group, who were said to be helping in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\nBy Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albert Kan-Dapaah met with Burkina Faso leader Ibrahim Traore Ghana\u2019s Minister of National Security Albert Kan-Dapaah has led a high-level delegation to Burkina Faso to reaffirm their commitment to partner in the fight against terrorism in the West Africa region. The delegation from Ghana also included security chiefs and officials from the Ministry of Foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The delegation from Ghana also included security chiefs and officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.<\/p>\n
Mr Kan-Dapaah conveyed a message\u00a0from President\u00a0Nana Akufo-Addo\u00a0to the Burkinabe leader Ibrahim Traore.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two countries reviewed the strong cooperation between them and clarified to their mutual satisfaction recent reported discussions between Ghana and the United States with regard to the needed partnerships for sustainable peace in the region,\u201d he told the media after the meeting in Ouagadougou on Wednesday 21 December 2022.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript><\/p>\n\u201cIn that respect, we discussed concrete support that Ghana has advocated for Burkina Faso in the Accra Initiative and ECOWAS and called on West African states to act expeditiously on the matter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\nEarlier, the government of Burkina Faso has summoned Ghana\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\nThat country\u2019s state information agency said Boniface Gambilla was summoned by the government of Apollinaire Kyelem over recent allegations made by\u00a0President\u00a0Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\nPresident Akufo-Addo, in a recent meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had raised concerns about the presence of Russian mercenaries on Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n\u201cToday, Russian mercenaries are on our northern border,\u201d Ghana\u2019s president complained to the US Secretary of State.<\/p>\n\u201cBurkina Faso has now entered into an arrangement to go along with Mali in employing the Wagner forces there. I believe the mines in southern Burkina have been allocated to them as a form of payment for their services. Prime Minister of Burkina Faso in the last 10 days has been in Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\nBut it was unclear if an official agreement had been signed between Burkina Faso officials and the Wagner group, who were said to be helping in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\nBy Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albert Kan-Dapaah met with Burkina Faso leader Ibrahim Traore Ghana\u2019s Minister of National Security Albert Kan-Dapaah has led a high-level delegation to Burkina Faso to reaffirm their commitment to partner in the fight against terrorism in the West Africa region. The delegation from Ghana also included security chiefs and officials from the Ministry of Foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cIn that respect, we discussed concrete support that Ghana has advocated for Burkina Faso in the Accra Initiative and ECOWAS and called on West African states to act expeditiously on the matter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the government of Burkina Faso has summoned Ghana\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\n
That country\u2019s state information agency said Boniface Gambilla was summoned by the government of Apollinaire Kyelem over recent allegations made by\u00a0President\u00a0Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo, in a recent meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had raised concerns about the presence of Russian mercenaries on Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, Russian mercenaries are on our northern border,\u201d Ghana\u2019s president complained to the US Secretary of State.<\/p>\n
\u201cBurkina Faso has now entered into an arrangement to go along with Mali in employing the Wagner forces there. I believe the mines in southern Burkina have been allocated to them as a form of payment for their services. Prime Minister of Burkina Faso in the last 10 days has been in Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\n
But it was unclear if an official agreement had been signed between Burkina Faso officials and the Wagner group, who were said to be helping in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n
By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albert Kan-Dapaah met with Burkina Faso leader Ibrahim Traore Ghana\u2019s Minister of National Security Albert Kan-Dapaah has led a high-level delegation to Burkina Faso to reaffirm their commitment to partner in the fight against terrorism in the West Africa region. The delegation from Ghana also included security chiefs and officials from the Ministry of Foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Albert Kan-Dapaah met with Burkina Faso leader Ibrahim Traore Ghana\u2019s Minister of National Security Albert Kan-Dapaah has led a high-level delegation to Burkina Faso to reaffirm their commitment to partner in the fight against terrorism in the West Africa region. The delegation from Ghana also included security chiefs and officials from the Ministry of Foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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