President John Dramani Mahama on Friday received a special message from Senegal’s President Diomaye Faye, delivered by the Senegalese Minister for Pan-African Integration and Foreign Affairs, Madam Yassine Fall. 

The message included an invitation for President Mahama to deliver the keynote address at a special event scheduled for September 26, 2025.

President Mahama lauded the longstanding ties between Ghana and Senegal, recalling the two nations’ leadership in advancing Pan-Africanism. 

“Ghana and Senegal have been at the forefront of Pan-Africanism and anything that has to do with the African personality in the struggle,” he said.

“Currently, we are the champions of reparations, and we need to continue to tell the story of how Africa was raided by countries that called themselves developed. It is on the back of Africa that they rode to become what they are.

So, if genocide in the Second World War deserves reparations, slavery was far worse. More people died in slavery than during the Second World War.”

On behalf of President Faye, Madam Fall extended condolences to the President and the people of Ghana over the loss of eight citizens, including senior government officials, in the August 6, 2025, helicopter crash. She also lauded President Mahama’s sterling leadership on the continent.

Present at the meeting were Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and Presidential Advisor and Special Aide to the President, Joyce Bawah Mogtari.