XXᵉ siècle
Ghana
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The Aburi Meeting was a January 1967 encounter in Ghana between Nigerian military leader Yakubu Gowon and Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, convened after General Joseph Ankrah invited Gowon to meet Ojukwu. It occurred during the period of worsening relations surrounding the Nigerian Civil War and stands as a named diplomatic episode in the extract.
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The Aburi Meeting took place in January 1967 at Aburi in Ghana. General Ankrah, leading Ghana’s military government, invited Yakubu Gowon to meet Colonel Ojukwu there, and Gowon readily accepted. The meeting occurred shortly after Nigeria’s military government recognised Ankrah’s new regime and before Ghanaian–Nigerian relations deteriorated further during the civil war.
Its significance in the extract derives from its position within a rapidly worsening regional crisis. Ghana initially maintained cordial relations with Nigeria’s military government, but sympathy for Nigerian secessionists in Ghanaian newspapers and later Ghanaian political initiatives undermined that cordiality. The Aburi encounter therefore belongs to the diplomatic prehistory of the war’s broader regional repercussions.
XXᵉ siècle
Ghana
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The Aburi Meeting was a January 1967 encounter in Ghana between Nigerian military leader Yakubu Gowon and Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, convened after General Joseph Ankrah invited Gowon to meet Ojukwu. It occurred during the period of worsening relations surrounding the Nigerian Civil War and stands as a named diplomatic episode in the extract.
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The Aburi Meeting took place in January 1967 at Aburi in Ghana. General Ankrah, leading Ghana’s military government, invited Yakubu Gowon to meet Colonel Ojukwu there, and Gowon readily accepted. The meeting occurred shortly after Nigeria’s military government recognised Ankrah’s new regime and before Ghanaian–Nigerian relations deteriorated further during the civil war.
Its significance in the extract derives from its position within a rapidly worsening regional crisis. Ghana initially maintained cordial relations with Nigeria’s military government, but sympathy for Nigerian secessionists in Ghanaian newspapers and later Ghanaian political initiatives undermined that cordiality. The Aburi encounter therefore belongs to the diplomatic prehistory of the war’s broader regional repercussions.
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