After a three-day business visit, US Vice President Kamala Harris departed Ghana on Wednesday afternoon at precisely 1400 hours aboard Air Force Two with flight number 90004.
After meeting with a few female business owners, she promised to continue US support for their economic development and announced the creation of a $60 million Women in Digital Economy Fund.
Ms. Harris will spend two days in Tanzania on the Air Force Two, a specially outfitted C-32 version of the Boeing 757-200, before concluding her seven-day trip to Africa in Zambia.
After Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Harris is the most senior US government official to travel to Africa.
Her trip to the three African nations aims to rekindle American relations with Africa by focusing on shared interests, candor, openness, and inclusivity.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana’s vice president, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Dominic Nitiwul, Ghana’s minister of defense, and Henry Quartey, minister for the Greater Accra Region, attended her departure.
She was accompanied by an entourage from the American Embassy in Ghana, led by Ambassador Virginia Evelyn Palmer.
She visited with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on her three-day visit to Ghana and attended a State banquet in her honor.
In a speech in Black Star Square on Tuesday, Harris encouraged some young people in Ghana and urged the government to help women more so that they can contribute more to economic progress.
She went to Ghana’s first regional capital, the Central Region, where she went on a tour of the Cape Coast Castle’s dungeons, a significant reminder of the slave trade.
At the airport, Ms. Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, greeted Ghanaian officials and waved at them from where they were waiting for the blue and white jet with the red stripe in the middle and the American flag at its tail (horizontal stabilizer).