He is trying to repair the rift after the steady and positive diplomatic relationship between Ghana and Burkina Faso faltered last December. Burkina Faso denied the claims. “It’s a gesture to repair a damaged relationship with Burkina Faso that is a close neighbour in battling with this threat,” Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar, executive director of West Africa Centre for Counter-Extremism, tells The Africa Report. Northern neighbour Burkina Faso and Mali are reeling from hard-line Islamist insurgencies as they struggle to manage political instability following a series of military coups in the last two years. Togo, bordering Ghana to the east, and Côte d’Ivoire to the west, as well as Benin, have also not

Source: The North Africa Journal June 09, 2023 12:02 UTC