President John Mahama Wednesday afternoon returned to Ghana after attending the Special Meeting of the African Union’s (AU) Heads of State and Governments in Nairobi, Kenya.
The three African nations trip took the President to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the Heads of State Energy Summit and Luanda, Angola, where he held a meeting with his Angolan counterpart, President Joao Lourenco.
President Mahama was received at the Kotoka International Airport by Mr Julius Debrah, the Chief of Staff.
Also present were Mrs Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, Legal Advisor to the President; Mr Prosper Douglas Bani, National Security Advisor, Commissioner of Police (COP) Kofi Boakye (Rtd), Director of Operations at the Presidency, and Mr Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, Minister-designate for the Interior.
Mr Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Acting Presidential Spokesperson, briefing the media on the trip, said it began with a brief visit to Angola, where President Mahama engaged with President Joao Lourenco and held some bilateral discussions, which revolved around ways that could be explored to deepen the already healthy ties between Ghana and Angola.
He said it was also to explore areas of mutual cooperation for the economic benefits of both nations.
Mr Ofosu said President Mahama was in Nairobi, Kenya for the Special Meeting of the AU’s Heads of State and Governments, at the invitation of Kenyan President William Ruto, who is the Champion of the Institutional Reforms in the African Union.
During the Nairobi Meeting, President Mahama called for deep-seated reforms in the operations of the African Union and how it enforced its mandate so that the benefits of Pan-Africanism and Regional Integration could be better felt by the hundreds of millions of people living on the continent.
