President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that many Burkinabe citizens are fleeing to Ghana due to insecurity in their home country.
Burkinabees fleeing their country have identified Ghana as a safe haven, according to Nana Akufo-Addo.
Speaking at a meeting with German Finance Minister Christian Lindner at Accra’s Jubilee House,
Nana Akufo-Addo says the Ghanaian government is committed to ending the insurgency in Burkina Faso.
“We are talking about a substantial number of people who are already coming southwards as a result of the difficulties in Burkina Faso. We have a direct, important, and strategic interest in doing whatever we can to bring this insurgency to an end and help stabilise the issues in Burkina Faso.”
Ghana and Burkina Faso have reaffirmed their commitment to collaborating in the sub-regional fight against terrorism. Ghana’s National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah made the announcement to journalists in Ouagadougou on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, after conveying a message from President Akufo-Addo to Burkinabe President Ibrahim Traore.
Mr. Kan-Dapaah led a high-level Ghanaian delegation that included security chiefs and officials from Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.
Flanked by the Burkinabe Foreign Minister Madame Olivia Rouamba, Mr. Kan-Dapaah said “the 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”.
Both countries have reaffirmed their support for a joint fight against terrorism, with the Minister welcoming the early implementation of the Accra Initiative to enable Burkina Faso to defeat the terrorists who have caused untold hardship and pain to the Burkinabe people.
“In that respect, we discussed concrete support that Ghana has advocated for Burkina Faso in the Accra Initiative and ECOWAS and called on the West African States to act expeditiously on the matter,” he said.
The two countries also emphasized the importance of strengthening vulnerable communities and providing assistance to those who have been displaced or have lost their livelihoods, and they called for genuine collaboration with the international community in this regard.
Ghana and Burkina Faso agreed to hold more frequent consultations.
Earlier, a retinue of religious and traditional leaders greeted Mr. Kan-Dapaah and his delegation.
They reaffirmed Ghana and Burkina Faso’s shared histories and traditions and agreed to investigate the possibility of periodic visitor exchanges with their counterparts in Ghana.
