/ 5 December 2001

50 DEAD IN GHANA

AT least 50 people have died and some 150 were injured in ethnic clashes over the weekend in Ghana’s northeastern region of Bawku, police said on Tuesday. ”A minimum of 50 people have died and at least 150 were injured in the violence which broke out over the weekend,” said a police official, speaking from Bawku. ”A dawn-to-dusk curfew is in force here today but the situation is under control,” he said. The police official said the clashes involved the rival Kusasi and Mamprusi ethnic groups. Bawku, in Ghana’s Upper East Region, is located 830 kilometres northeast of Accra. – Sapa