He briefed ECOWAS Chair, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the initiative, which faced no resistance—a sign of commitment to reintegrating the nations. The Accra session will focus on withdrawal ...

The Accra Initiative members, which include Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo, are discussing preventing spillover of terrorism from the Sahel. European forces have been withdrawing from ...

The Accra Initiative of seven West African countries is meeting in the Ghanaian capital Thursday to discuss ways of preventing the spillover of terrorism from the Sahel region. Islamist militants ...

The Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC) is set to lead a new initiative dubbed “Accra by Night”, aimed at showcasing the vibrant cultural and creative heartbeat of the capital city after ...

Culminating into the Accra Initiative, the group of seven West African states after Mali and Niger joined in 2019, has agreed to create a military force to fight jihadists who have destabilised the ...

British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, says the United Kingdom is very much interested in the security challenges of Ghana and her neighbours. According to Ms. Thompson ...

A high-level international counter-terrorism conference opened in Accra Tuesday, with a call on member States of the Accra Initiative to pursue a common preventive approach to rid West Africa of the ...

President Akufo-Addo has expressed concern about the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its subsequent impact on the Accra ...

As part of the so-called Accra Initiative, representatives of coastal states, the European Union and others met in the Ghanaian capital for talks on security and intelligence cooperation.

The Accra Initiative was launched in September 2017 by Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo in response to growing insecurity linked to violent extremism in the region. It aims to ...