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Sunday 12 December 2021

WEST AFRICA: Laurent Gbagbo attends Captain Kojo Tsikata’s funeral, plans meeting with Ivorian Refugees in Ghana, Benin, and Togo.




Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo arrived in Ghana on Wednesday December 8,2021 to commiserate with the family of Captain Kojo Tsikata(Rtd) and Ghana on the loss of his longtime crony. 

Born in 1936, Kojo Tsikata was a Ghanaian military officer and politician, who became the Head of National Security and Foreign Affairs in 1993, under President Jerry John Rawlings of blessed memory. He was an appointees of former Lybian revolutionary leader Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi to serve in a senior advisory position in charge of the Al Mathaba central committee, a support center for the liberation movement and anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist organizations in Lybia during his supremacy.



Captain Kojo Tsikata was a recipient of Angola’s highest honors, identified as Carlos Silva among Angolan fighters, for his role in the struggle for national independence, plus he was a holder of the Solidarity Award and of the Order of “Carlos Manuel de Céspedes”, conferred by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, amongst several honors to his credit.

As part of his visit to Ghana, Former President Laurent Gbagbo would meet with Ivorian refugees in Ghana, Togo and Benin who sort asylum in these neighboring countries during the post-election crisis in Ivory Coast in 2011. These refugees have resisted persuasion by the Ivorian Commissioner for Refugees and the Ghana Refugees board to get them back into their country even after being given a grace period of up to June 2022 to vacate their various refugee camps of resident.

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