U.S. SUPPORTS GHANA'S ELECTIONS PREPAREDNESS

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The US Government is providing two-point-four million Dollars to enhance Ghana’s peace architecture by improving its ability to respond to electoral conflict. Through these efforts, the capabilities of the National and Regional Peace Councils and other civil society groups will be strengthened to disseminate peace messages. 

An official of the US Agency for International Development, USAID, Nana Serwaa Bonsu Amoako, announced this at the launch of the Ashanti Regional Elections Early Warning and Response Group, REEWARG in Kumasi. 

REEWARG is set up with the primary objective to discuss, develop and recommend response strategies to violent threats in the Ashanti Region this year’s general elections. 

Nana Serwaa Amoako said the US Government is committed to supporting Ghana, adding that its interest is in seeing free, fair, peaceful elections that represents the will of the Ghanaians. 

She noted that in 2014 at the US-Arica Leadership Summit, President Obama pledged to work with ECOWAS to strengthen election early warning systems throughout West Africa that would monitor, analyze and report election violence triggers so that they can stop potential violence at its root. 

Nana Serwaa Amoako said as part of the response to this pledge, the US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson supported the launch of the National Election Early Warning and Response Group last month, to play a central role in ensuring smooth elections in the coming months. 

According to her, the launch of the early warning and election response group in the Ashanti Region and another one in the Northern Region later this week with the collaboration of the Peace Councils in the two regions will bring immediate attention and response to electoral conflict threats at the grassroots level.

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