Photo: Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and the US Vice President, Hon. Kamala Harris
Photo Credit: The Presidency
27 March 2023
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday, welcomed the US Vice President, Hon. Kamala Harris, to the country’s presidential palace — the Jubilee House
President Nana Akufo-Addo said the purpose of the visit by the American Vice President was to re-affirm the ties of co-operation and the bonds of friendship that our two countries attach to our relations with each other.
Vice President Harris and I first had the opportunity of meeting at the White House in 2021, and, subsequently, where we both pledged to the commitment of exploring further areas of interest for the mutual benefit of our two countries. This visit reinforces the commitment to engage further.
I am happy to state that this afternoon’s meeting has further boosted the steadfast cooperation between us, and Ghana would continue to collaborate with the United States of America at all levels, particularly towards the peaceful resolution of conflicts and in the search for global peace and security to promote sustainable development around the globe, said President Nana Akufo-Addo.
US Vice President Kamala Harris praised President Nana Akufo-Addo for his “democratic principles” and pledged more than $100 million (€ 93 million) in an aid package to the country and vowed to help Ghana with their regional security issues and deteriorating economy.
“Under your leadership, Ghana has been a beacon of democracy and a contributor to global peace and security,” she said to the Ghanaian President after their meeting.
Harris arrived in Ghana on Sunday, her first stop in her week long tour to Africa and was welcomed at Accra’s Kotoka International airport by schoolchildren who cheered and waved Ghanaian and American flags.
Harris, is being accompanied by her husband Douglas Emhoff on the trip. “We are looking forward to this trip as a further statement of the long and enduring and very important relationship and friendship between the people of the United States and those who live on the continent of Africa,” Harris said.
She said she was “very excited about the future of Africa,” adding that she would be discussing issues like increasing food security, climate change, and growing investment on the continent.
Harris will spend three nights in Ghana, two nights in Tanzania, and one in Zambia. She is the highest-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit Africa this year. She will meet with leaders of each country and lay a wreath to commemorate the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania.
The US unveiled an African strategy in August last year, with an eye on bolstering democracy on the continent.