Tag: Africa: Ghana Against AFRICOM

NOVANEWS Abayomi Azikiwe Ghana Opposition Against AFRICOM Deal “There is little discrepancy in the 2018 agreement ratified in Parliament and those signed under regimes headed by ex-President Jerry John Rawlings and Hannah Tetteh.” A leader of the second largest political party in the West African state of Ghana, the Deputy Secretary General of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho, was arrested on 27 March 2018 after making comments about the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of current President Nana Akufo-Addo. Anyidoho, in an interview over a national radio network Happy FM, severely criticized a military agreement between Ghana and the United States, which would in essence establish a Pentagon base inside the country. This decision was initiated by the executi...