Ghana and Algeria have reached an settlement to reinforce cooperation in key sectors, together with enhance in scholarships for Ghanaian college students in synthetic intelligence, robotics, and engineering.
Throughout a current bilateral agreement, the 2 international locations pledged to ascertain a direct air hyperlink between Accra and Algiers, launch a strategic partnership in oil and fuel, and strengthen cooperation in safety and intelligence sharing.
This settlement follows an official go to to Algiers, Algeria, by the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, final week.
The minister held high-level conferences with the President of Algeria, Mr Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and Overseas Minister, Mr Ahmed Attaf.
Mr Ablakwa announ ced that the 2 international locations additionally signed a visa waiver settlement as a part of efforts to reinforce diplomatic and financial cooperation.
He described the go to as exceedingly profitable, and expressed gratitude to the Algerian Authorities for its exceptionally heat hospitality and real friendship.
Mr Ablakwa highlighted the long-standing ties between Ghana and Algeria, noting that Ghana was the primary nation to patronise the Algerian flag and anthem outaspect of Algeria within the early Nineteen Sixties.
“The go to reaffirmed the enduring relationship between Ghana and Algeria, grounded in a historical past of post-independence solidarity and mutual help.
“I convey heartfelt gratitude to President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and my brother, Overseas Minister Ahmed Attaf, for his or her exceptionally heat hospitality and real friendship,” Mr Ablakwa mentioned.
He mentioned, Ghana and Algeria would maintain the 4th session of the Everlasting Joint Fee for Cooperation in Accra, earlier than the top of 2025.
Mr Ablakwa defined that this session goals to establish and implement ‘cooperation tasks’ in areas resembling increased education, vocational coaching, justice, transport, agriculture, well being, pharmaceutical trade, agro-industry and manufacturing of constructing supplies.
“The 2 international locations reaffirmed our dedication to multilateralism and to the rules enshrined within the UN Constitution and the AU Constitutive Act.
We emphasised the necessity for coordinated African responses to regional and international challenges, as either side underscored the precept of African options to African issues and the need of prioritising dialogue, reconciliation, and negotiated settlements in addressing conflicts on the continent,” he added.
Mr Ablakwa prolonged an invite to Mr Attaf to honour a reciprocal go to to Ghana at a mutually agreed-upon date, via diplomatic channels.
Ghana was the primary nation in sub-Saharan Africa to help the wrestle of the Algerian individuals for independence and to have shut relations with the Nationwide Liberation Entrance (FLN) proper from the onset of the November 1, 1954 revolution.
In March 1945, in Manchester, the Fifth Pan-African Congress, upon the insistence of President Kwame Nkrumah, known as, for the primary time, the independence of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
The primary President of Ghana, Dr Nkrumah, acknowledged the Provisional Authorities of the Algerian Republic as quickly because it was created in 1958 and the anti-colonialist activist, Frantz Fanon was appointed Algeria’s Ambassador to Ghana. Ghana, in flip, opened its diplomatic mission in Algeria in April 1963.
BY BERNARD BENGHAN
