Burkina Faso: Ghanaian delegation arrives in Ouagadougou amid scrambling cooperation
A Ghanaian delegation headed by Ghanaian Minister of National Security Albert Dapaah arrived Wednesday, December 21, 2022 in Ouagadougou according to concordant sources. All indications are that the visit follows the diplomatic incident provoked by the allegations of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo Addo at the US-Africa summit in Washington.They are in all a dozen personalities within this delegation including General Francis Adu-Amanfoh, Special Adviser to the Ghanaian President on the Accra initiative. They also include the Chief of Staff of the Ghana Army and diplomats.It is therefore a strong Ghanaian delegation commensurate with the “gravity” of the incident provoked at the highest summit of the Ghanaian State during the international summit, undermining relations between the two brotherly countries.”It is certainly to strengthen the ties of cooperation and dispel the gray areas in the ties of cooperation, following the exchanges of rants of the week, in order to present an official apology,” said a spokesman for the Burkinabe Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At the end of the diplomatic quarrel, it becomes urgent for the two countries to renew and warm their ties of cooperation against the backdrop of a mea culpa from the Ghanaian authorities.
It is clear that Ghana through this approach implicitly recognizes its wrongs in this case which tended to undermine the image of the country of Honest Men after so many efforts led by the transitional government. In any case, the incident has been widely discussed in the sense that the Burkinabe authorities have even described the allegations of the Ghanaian president as “very serious”.
In the aftermath, a Burkinabe pan-Africanist has, in turn, judged the words of Nana Akufo-Addo as “scandalous” and fruit of “fertile imagination” calling on the Burkinabè to wash away this affront by a popular protest.Last week, on the sidelines of the U.S.-Africa summit, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said Burkina Faso had approved the deployment of forces from the Russian private security group Wagner in exchange for a mine in the south of its territory.
The Burkinabe government had “disapproved”, on December 16, the remarks of the Ghanaian president through also a denial of the Minister in charge of Mines, Simon Pierre Boussim on the granting of a mine to the Wagner group in exchange for its services in the fight against terrorism.
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