Catherine W Gichuki
Doha
The first repatriation flight to Ghana left Hamad International Airport at around 3am on Friday morning with 226 Ghanaian expatriates on board the aircraft.
The expatriates left for Accra via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airlines chartered plane.
Ghanaian Ambassador to Qatar HE Emmanuel Enos, a number of his staff, and Chairman of the Ghanaian Community Stephen Adjei, were at the airport to ensure a smooth departure formality and bid farewell to the evacuees.
Speaking to Qatar Tribune, the ambassador said, "With the advent of COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant economic and social challenges, many Ghanaian workers were left stranded in Qatar. The Government of Ghana, through its Embassy in Doha and the Executives of the Ghanaian Community, organised an evacuation exercise for all the stranded Ghanaians, numbering 226, to depart Doha through the Hamad International Airport, via Ethiopian Airlines Flight, on Friday, July 31, 2020.”
He said the whole repatriation arrangements were impressively successful, largely due to the immense cooperation the embassy received from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its warm and hardworking Chief of Protocol, Ambassador Ibrahim Yousif Abdullah Fakhro, and his staff as well as other relevant Qatari Institutions.
"Without a doubt, the resounding success of the evacuation exercise is a testament to the existing cordial bilateral relations between the two friendly countries. The Embassy of Ghana in Qatar is hopeful that the existing bonds of friendship between Ghana and the State of Qatar would continue to be strengthened and deepened, even further, in the coming years for the mutual benefit of the two countries,” said the
ambassador.
Doha
The first repatriation flight to Ghana left Hamad International Airport at around 3am on Friday morning with 226 Ghanaian expatriates on board the aircraft.
The expatriates left for Accra via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airlines chartered plane.
Ghanaian Ambassador to Qatar HE Emmanuel Enos, a number of his staff, and Chairman of the Ghanaian Community Stephen Adjei, were at the airport to ensure a smooth departure formality and bid farewell to the evacuees.
Speaking to Qatar Tribune, the ambassador said, "With the advent of COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant economic and social challenges, many Ghanaian workers were left stranded in Qatar. The Government of Ghana, through its Embassy in Doha and the Executives of the Ghanaian Community, organised an evacuation exercise for all the stranded Ghanaians, numbering 226, to depart Doha through the Hamad International Airport, via Ethiopian Airlines Flight, on Friday, July 31, 2020.”
He said the whole repatriation arrangements were impressively successful, largely due to the immense cooperation the embassy received from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its warm and hardworking Chief of Protocol, Ambassador Ibrahim Yousif Abdullah Fakhro, and his staff as well as other relevant Qatari Institutions.
"Without a doubt, the resounding success of the evacuation exercise is a testament to the existing cordial bilateral relations between the two friendly countries. The Embassy of Ghana in Qatar is hopeful that the existing bonds of friendship between Ghana and the State of Qatar would continue to be strengthened and deepened, even further, in the coming years for the mutual benefit of the two countries,” said the
ambassador.