President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has expressed profound regret over the recent tragic events in Niger and Sierra Leone.
At the opening of the ECOWAS’s Extraordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra on Sunday, President Akufo-Addo expressed the Authority’s condolences to the family of the victims.
He expressed the regional bloc’s solidarity with the victims of Jihadist attacks in Niger last Tuesday and with the approximately a hundred people killed in a tanker explosion in Freetown on Thursday.
A terror attack in Niger last Tuesday by jihadist groups left 69 people dead, including a local mayor in Banibangou, near the country’s border with Mali.
On Thursday, November 4, 2021, a loaded fuel tanker and truck carrying granite stones collided on a highway in Freetown and exploded, leading to the death of over a hundred people and scores of others injured.
“We express our deep regrets and condolences on these sad incidents”, President Akufo-Addo said and called for the observance of a minute’s silence in the memory of the victims of those incidents.
The Accra meeting, attended by ….. ECOWAS heads were to advance deliberations on the reports of missions to the two countries following the military takeover of their governments.
