The Ambassador of Ghana to Zimbabwe, H.E. Bonaventure Adjavor, visited the Zimbabwe National Defence University (ZNDU) on Monday, 27th April, 2026, to deliver an insightful and comprehensive lecture on the theme “Ghana’s National Security Concept and Security Challenges in West Africa.”
The presentation formed part of a series of well-designed lectures by the ZNDU for participants of Course 14 of 2025, made up of military personnel from Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia and Nigeria.
The presentation spoke to the fundamentals of Ghana’s national security architecture and assessed key elements such as community engagement, human security integration, technological modernization, and maritime security, which constitute the pillars of Ghana’s security framework to effectively safeguard the country against threats of insurgency in the sub-region.
During the presentation, the Ambassador examined the unique security landscape in West Africa in recent years, including well-known threats to geo-political security in the region, including terrorism and violent extremism, transnational organized crime, maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea, as well as regional fragmentation and military coups.
He affirmed Ghana’s strong commitment to the resumption of stability in the region through regional security cooperation frameworks such as the Accra Initiative, launched in 2017. Recognising the current ECOWAS-AES impasse, Ghana has initiated dialogue to explore a new collaborative platform, which is aimed at joining together all countries in the region to fight violent extremism and transnational organised crime.
Ghana’s regional security cooperation efforts are strongly underpinned by its foreign policy objectives of good neighbourliness, promotion of regional integration, and adherence to the principles enshrined in the Charter of the UN, AU and ECOWAS.
The Ambassador was accompanied by the Embassy’s Defence Attaché resident in Pretoria, South Africa, Commodore Samuel Walker and the Mission’s Counsellor/Political & Economic.
