Ghana news briefing
Mahama urges African leaders to secure continent’s health sovereignty
The President made the appeal in his opening remarks at the African Union Extraordinary Health Summit in Accra.
President Mahama said in December 1958, Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who gathered the freedom movements of this continent in Accra, at the All-African People’s Conference, and reminded them that the independence of Ghana would be meaningless unless it was linked to the total liberation of the African continent.
He noted that this was the continent’s first charter in support of the African Union’s roadmap on maternal and child survival, which was built around measurable objectives and a clear set of reform principles.
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