Two Ghanaian peacekeepers to be honoured posthumously

During ceremonies at United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General, António Guterres, will lay a wreath to honour the more than 4,400 UN peacekeepers who have lost their lives since 1948. He will also preside over a ceremony in the Trusteeship Council Chamber, at which Dag Hammarskjöld Medals will be awarded posthumously to 57 military, police, and civilian peacekeepers, who lost their lives serving under the UN flag last year.

Among the peacekeepers to be honoured posthumously with the Dag Hammarskjold medal are two from Ghana: Sergeant Evans Kyere and WOII David Kwame Amankwah who both served with the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). 

Ghana is the 7th largest contributor of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping.  It currently deploys more than 2,600 military and police personnel to the UN peace operations in Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, Lebanon, the Middle East, Somalia, South Sudan, West Africa, Western Sahara and Yemen.

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