British Foreign Office Minister of State Peter Hain arrived in Abuja, Nigeria, on Sunday at the start of a week-long visit to West Africa, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman told IRIN.
“I am visiting Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana because all three of them are making progress,” Hain said prior to his trip.
Nigeria, he said, was “reinventing itself” after years of brutal military rule to a new democracy. Sierra Leone has adopted a peace deal which offered hope, after eight years of horrific conflict, he said, and Ghana was preparing for a hand over to a new elected president, “in line with its tradition of tolerance, pluralism, and economic progress”.
Hain will travel to Sierra Leone on Wednesday and to Ghana on Friday.
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