Ghanaian leader Nana Akufo-Addo has charged African countries to intensify efforts to fight terrorism on the continent, as the turbulence caused by perpetrators of terrorist attacks, threaten regional integration.
In his view, the objective of an integrated Africa cannot be achieved without peace and stability on the continent, adding that countries should shun nations notorious for terrorist activities.
According to him, Africa will not have a united front to confront its economic and political challenges if some states continue to battle human security challenges which confront their people.
“At the moment, terrorist groups including Al Qaeda, the Movement for Unity in Jihad, Boko Haram and Al Shabab, have fed on the traditional threats to security and they have unleashed terror on the citizenry in their effort to stifle the freedom and liberties enjoyed by our people,” the Ghanaian president said at a high-level African Union (AU) retreat on peace and stability held in Accra, Ghana on Thursday, 25 October 2018.
He said some African countries are cooperating to achieve the desired results and this should spur Africans on to the collective drive towards a peaceful and united Africa.
He envisaged a day “when all of us will look to doing business first in our region and continent, before looking to Europe, Asia or the Americas, because we have the men and women, the goods, the services and the quality”.
He said the way forward was regional and continental decisions in the interest of every state.
Source: Class FM
