Leaders from Gulf of Guinea neighbors Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo gathered in Accra on Thursday (Nov. 17). It was their first serious discussion about increasing teamwork.
The countries who are a part of the 2017 Accra Initiative want to work together more effectively to combat the rising dangers from terrorist organizations. The number of people killed by terrorists associated with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State who are waging war in the Sahel region keeps going up.
The Ghanaian Minister of National Security assured his visitors that the seminar was timely.
It is timely because it gives us the opportunity to consider the tactics and actions taken so far to combat the danger of terrorism and violent extremism.
According to the Albert Kan-Dapaah, 346 assaults were reported throughout Africa in the first quarter of 2022, with over half occurring in the west of the continent.
As the UK, France, and other countries consider possibilities for “rebalancing our deployment,” British Defense Minister James Heappey said on Monday (Nov. 14) that he will attend the Accra summit the following week.
In order to coordinate our updated response to the Sahel, I will join colleagues from around Europe and West Africa in Accra, he added.
As a line of defense against the development of islamist violence, European forces and other peacekeeping operations, notably Ivorian and Egyptian soldiers, have been operating in Mali for years.
However, numerous nations recently declared they would withdraw their troops from Mali.
