“We Oppose Singling Out African Countries For Covid-19 Travel Bans” – President Akufo-Addo
“We repeated our firm opposition to all attempts to single out African countries for the imposition of travel bans, as instruments of immigration control, when we are told, for example, that the omicron variant of COVID-19, which was recently sequenced and reported by South African scientists, was discovered much earlier in the Netherlands”.
These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, when he addressed a joint press conference at Jubilee House, with the President of the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa, on Saturday, 4th December 2021, as part of a 2-day visit to Ghana by the South African leader.
The President’s comments follows the decision by the US, UK and EU to bar entry to travellers&...