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Akufo-Addo pulls out all the stops to secure AU number two job for Ghana

With Ghana looking set to lose two of its most strategically important posts at the UN and the African Union in 2021, Akufo-Addo is redoubling his efforts to get Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee appointed as deputy chair of the AU Commission. [...] (438 words)
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President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, at the UN General Assembly in New York City, 20 September 2021. © John Angelillo/Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP
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GHANA Diplomacy 05/11/2021

Akufo-Addo spreads his diplomatic wings at the UN, ECOWAS and in Mali 

As the serving ECOWAS president, Nana Akufo-Addo has been heavily involved in the series of crises which have affected the west African region over the last year or so. To handle the burning issues they have thrown up, as Ghana prepares to take up its seat on the UN Security Council, the Ghanaian head of state, himself a former foreign affairs minister, has been relying on a small group of loyal supporters and an extensive diplomatic network. [...]
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As AU's position on Western Sahara shifts, Minister Boukadoum is sent to rally "last" allies 

The Algerian foreign minister Sabri Boukadoum has paid a visit to the few, still pro-Polisario capitals in Africa with the hope of gaining room for manoeuvre on the matter of the disputed region. He came away disappointed. [...]
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum met his Angolan counterpart Tete Antonio on 14 January 2021.
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum met his Angolan counterpart Tete Antonio on 14 January 2021. © Twitter/Sabri Boukadoum

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