Mahama urges Africa to avoid great-power rivalries
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Thechronicle
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has called on African countries to defend their interests amid global competition for critical minerals, supply chains and technologies. He made the appeal at the Tana Forum on security in Africa, according to the Ghanaian presidency.
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has called on African countries to prevent the continent from becoming a theatre for geopolitical rivalries between major powers. He urged them to defend their strategic interests amid international competition for critical minerals, supply chains and technologies, at the 12th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa on Saturday 24 October in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, according to the Ghanaian presidency.
John Mahama also presented economic sovereignty and justice as necessary foundations for lasting peace. He cited the Accra Reset initiative, a framework proposed to address economic dependence, unsustainable debt and inequalities in the international financial system, and called for African solutions to peace, governance and security challenges.
The intervention builds on positions defended by John Mahama on economic sovereignty, notably in his call to put this sovereignty at the heart of African security, published on 24 October. It also followed his call earlier the same day for Africa to finance its own peace operations.
