Cote d'Ivoire president visits Ghana

Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo left Abidjan on Tuesday for a 48-hour working visit to Ghana at the invitation of his Ghanaian counterpart John Atta Mills, a communiqué from the presidential press service reported.

Gbagbo was scheduled to pay a visit to the mausoleum of "the father of modern Ghana" Kwame Nkrumah, whose country is posthumously celebrating his 100th birthday.

On Wednesday, Gbagbo will meet with the community of Cote d'Ivoire living in Ghana before the traditional bilateral summit meeting, which will come up with the final communiqué.

Gbagbo had already in January visited Accra during the swearing-in ceremony of Atta Mills after his election as the head of state in Ghana.

In return, the Ghanaian president had dedicated his first external visit to Cote d'Ivoire during a friendly and working visit to Yamoussoukro in April.

The reunion between the two heads of state is expected to improve cooperation between the two neighboring West African countries and their people.

Source: Xinhua