GHANA : Akufo-Addo's Sahelian agenda

President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo. ©Felipe Trueba/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The current holder of the ECOWAS rotating chair, Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo, is intending to make the Sahel a central priority of his term at the helm of the regional organisation at a time when jihadist groups are extending their networks into countries lying on the west African coast. [...] (359 words)

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