The President of the Security Council for the month of November 2022, Ghana convened a high-level debate with Heads of State and Government entitled "Counter-terrorism in Africa: an imperative for peace, security and development", under the agenda item "Threats to international peace and security".

This high-level debate seeks to focus attention on ongoing counter-terrorism measures in Africa and how best the Security Council could support such efforts, including through adequate, predictable and sustainable financing. The debate also looked at how the Security Council could work with regional arrangements to address the terrorism menace.

Over the past two decades, the African continent has experienced an influx of terrorist groups, whose ultimate aim is to take advantage of the security vacuum in territories with inadequate State authority to establish their own presence. Their presence has been witnessed in places such as the Sahel, Lake Chad basin, north-east Nigeria, northern Mozambique, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Somalia. Of the 7,000 terrorist-related deaths recorded in 2021, close to half (48 per cent) of the deaths have occurred in Africa, according to the 2022 Global Terrorism Index report.

The debate wias chaired by the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

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