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A 10-day course on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism has begun in Accra. The course is a collaboration between the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) and the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism, with support from the GIZ, and it is aimed at building individual skills to enhance the capacity and effectiveness of personnel of the United Nations, African Union, Regional and National Security and Intelligence Institutions to prevent and counter violent extremism. The course which has brought together international facilitators of high-caliber, have been specially designed to equip participants with the knowledge and...

The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery, has called for the strengthening of collaboration amongst ECOWAS Member States to address issues of cross-border criminality. The Minister made the call on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at the opening ceremony of the 4-day Joint Introductory Judicial Training of Trainers Course on Cyber-crime and Electronic Evidence. According to him, Joint capacity building programmes, intelligence sharing among investigative agencies and judicial cooperation are areas that required commitment among ECOWAS nations to address regional cyber-crime challenges. He further advocated for the enforcement of the provisions of the ECOWAS Directive on cyber-crimes (Directive C/DIR/1/08/11...

The 2017/2018 National Bush Fire Prevention Campaign was launched on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at Mpreaso, in the Eastern Region with a call on the citizenry to change their attitude and support the fight for preservation of the environment. This year’s campaign, which is the sixth since its inception and under the theme “Prevent bush Fires and Save the Environment” was aimed at sensitizing the public, particularly, farmers, herdsmen, palm-wine tappers and game hunters on the devastating effect of bush fires on the country and the need for all well-meaning Ghanaians to get involved in preventing them. In a...