Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, has charged the United Nation’s Security Council (UNSC), which is the central mechanism of the United Nations for maintaining international peace and security, to support “adequate, predictable and sustainable financing of African-led operations”, in the global fight against terrorism.

Chairing a debate of the UN Security Council, as part of Ghana’s Presidency of the Council for the month of November, President Akufo-Addo stated that terrorism has always posed a danger to international peace and security, and continues to threaten peaceful co-existence between and within nations.

In Africa, the President noted that the Sahel, for example, with a population of some 300 million people, has accounted for the highest incidents of recorded terrorist attacks between January and June this year, which has resulted in some 5,412 deaths across Africa.