Bawku Conflict: From bombing of Kufuor’s vehicle to burning down of Ayariga’s house, 300 deaths

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  • Ghanaba 8 months ago

    When will mpepefour understand anything?

  • NO PLACE FOR TRIBALISM IN GHANA. IT IS KILLING US. 8 months ago

    It is sad to read your comments. When you travel to the West you are happy to take sh** from the Whites. Some of them call you ni**** to your face while you are cleaning their toilets and clearing their rubbish. Just visit Ne ...
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  • New order 8 months ago

    You are not correct, your so called religion of peace look how you act all around the world.

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 8 months ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 10 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • ME 8 months ago

    Kill yourself first Dr Mumbi Seraki and stop telling Ghanaian youth to kill themselves by taking paracetamol you silly cow.... Ghanaians are happy people; sorry you are jealous of how happy Ghanaians are.

  • Samus 8 months ago

    And what has the conflict in Bawku got to do with someone cleaning in London or New York?Next time write a sensible comment.

  • NSOR NKYIAMU 8 months ago

    Samus it’s not everyone who has the capacity to think very clearly like you. You are 1000% correct. What that idiot wrote about working abroad is dumb, daft and foolish. These are the useless, ignorant buffoons who fail exa ...
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  • Drake 8 months ago

    So these are the comments from you so called wise ones abi? @ Samus and NSOR NKYIAMU?
    You guys are pathetic indeed seeing nothing wrong with the elephant head whose comment the writer replied (with the most perfect non-abusi ...
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  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 8 months ago

    @ NO PLACE FOR TRIBALISM IN GHANA:
    DO ACTUALLY KNOW NEW YORK?

    You sound very insecure yourself. What has this got to do what Ghanaians do abroad? It seems you are implying that the type of jobs Ghanaians do is not accep ...
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  • James Bonsu 8 months ago

    This comment is uncalled for, our brothers and sisters are dying for no reasons, name calling is not the answer here, reasonable common sense is needed here to solve this problems and it's up to the administration to sppoint ...
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  • Yelsida naab 8 months ago

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  • James Bonsu 8 months ago

    It is written, humans cannot save themselves, this shows some part of our weakness, issues like this can be solved with reasonable people but where are they, let us live in peace, war is not the answer and some of our comment ...
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  • Annan 8 months ago

    It is time to leave Pepefuo to kill themselves. That is how a good leader will emerge there. Low people like the chimpanzee deputy General Secretary will be naturally enslaved and will not get the opportunity to knack, I mean ...
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  • James Bonsu 8 months ago

    Mr Annan you are an ignorant person, full of hatred and is not need here, l am sure they are some wise and interlligent out there among these groups who can solve this complex problem for them to live peacefully.

  • Ofoi 8 months ago

    They weren't born to no peace. That's is the truth. Until the world comes to an end they will continue to fight. Is all over the world.

  • THIS MONEY-MAKING SKILL WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! 8 months ago

    After Easter it's the end of a qtr of this year. God only BLESSES the WORKS of our HANDS so put your hands to work! One blink & it's 2026. Time doesn't care. It's MERCILESS. You either rise or get buried. No more excuses. Tim ...
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  • EA 8 months ago

    Why box everyone in the north. Don't you know the area or areas that are fighting? Are you saying there are no spots of violence in the south? Should we also box them? Be careful

  • OUMUAMUA 8 months ago

    Let jakpa the national security leader go to Bawku and arrest every trouble maker there.

  • Bbk 8 months ago

    We are tired of them. Withdraw all security services from the town and prevent people from coming in or out of the town. Let them kill themselves and let Ghana has peace. We are tired.

  • First Offer 8 months ago

    What sort of nonsense journalism is Ghanaweb trying to do at this time? You’re trying to inflame passions and it’s bad!

  • jesus 8 months ago

    Thank you, First Offer. There are some creatures in this country that refused to and will never use their brains!

  • Nana 8 months ago

    It is not bad journalism as you claimed, he is vividly describing the character of Kusasis and Mamprusis.They and their leaders shd be ashamed of their barbaric primitive animalistic behaviour. Ghanaian taxpayers cannot affor ...
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  • Nzema k- TURN KETA INTO CITY ON THE SEA 8 months ago

    Sensational headline. Ghanaweb Grow up. Idiots calling themselves Journalists.

  • POLITICAL TENSIONS BECAUSE SOME POLITICIANS CONTINUE TO EXPLOIT THEIR DIFFERENCES 8 months ago

    Political tensions will fall away when politicians stop exploiting our differences; drawing wedges between us at the least opportunity. Not only in Bawku. NDC is the worst offender when it comes to exploiting tribal differenc ...
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  • Kofi 8 months ago

    Why is Bawumia so desperate to escalate the conflict in Bawku by the use of communist inferior tactics. The people say they don't want you are you deft? Is it by force ? . You this stupid rat

  • Jacob Amponsah 8 months ago

    Please,if you don't have anything to say just relax .
    Why are you still blaming Dr. Bawumia, during the campaign time President Mahama said that it's only NPP time that Bukwu intensify.
    Nobody in this country heard him righ ...
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  • Vida 8 months ago

    I will vote for Mahama

  • Atta Kay 8 months ago

    NDC has been been divisive since 1992 and that is what they rely on to win power bcoz they don't have a vision for the country. Ewes,Krobos,Adas etc all used to rely on Akwapims,Akyems for farm land bcoz they were not blessed ...
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  • Mansah 8 months ago

    I dont have all the facts so no commentary but I know Asantehene is capable.
    1. all it take is for parties to realise that if things go this way,this generation will pass,and all that there is will remain with their children ...
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  • Jacob Amponsah 8 months ago

    Look, people are calling for involvement of the Asantehene, you people insulting Asante's
    Late President Mills one said that 'adze wo ' fie a 3y3 '.
    If you don't have elder 's in your community you are doomed.

  • Nana Kwaku 8 months ago

    There is a point to which every human being can lose his anger.Asantehene is human one day he will be fed up with Northern conflicts and withdraw from all those peace talks if Northerners cannot comport themselves and live as ...
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  • Paa Jackson 8 months ago

    This nonsense must stop now. Aaa why?

  • T-Pain 8 months ago

    They have done very well, so far. The people should be encouraged to keep fighting until a clear winner emerges. Go on, Bawku people. Keep fighting.

  • HELLO DEVIL 8 months ago

    Hello Devil.

  • Jacob Amponsah 8 months ago

    Please, this not boxing oooo.
    It's a serious matter.
    People are perishing.

  • MARY MAVIS GYAMFIWAA 8 months ago

    Hi Arch devil!

  • Ploterariat 8 months ago

    Clickbait and sensational journalism. Whoever authored the article and approved the headline should be ashamed of themselves. You're becoming quite a useless news aggregator.

  • Agyeman 8 months ago

    suggest a headline other than this caption

  • Proletariat 8 months ago

    Understanding the Bawku Conflict: Notable Events Over the Years

    See how it’s possible to not sensationalize everything for clicks and still convey the sentiments you want ? Majority of people clicking that article are go ...
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  • Kdwo 8 months ago

    What a headline

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  • AMARIYA 8 months ago

    YOU ARE A CRIMINAL
    Your services are not needed. Infact I am referring your your cell to the State Security and CID in Ghana and Canada.

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  • Kwame marfo 8 months ago

    Mahama assured the people of bawku peace by referenced that there's always peace when NDC is in power. So let me people enjoy the peace now

  • Kwesi 8 months ago

    Precisely so. Until NDC stop deceiving the Bawku people that they are the PEACEMAKERS, and that NPP are TROUBLE MAKERS, there is no way out of this stupidity of theirs. Let them continue killing themselves until there is NON ...
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  • Kwesi 8 months ago

    Precisely so. Until NDC stop deceiving the Bawku people that they are the PEACEMAKERS, and that NPP are TROUBLE MAKERS, there is no way out of this stupidity of theirs. Let them continue killing themselves until there is NON ...
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  • David and Goliath 8 months ago

    Time oThis has crossed the red line of civilised behaviour and tolerance. It is no longer a viable entity. Time to treat it as an occupied territory run under martial law. Regardless of the causes, we much agree that the terr ...
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  • Charlie Taylor 8 months ago

    I strongly support you Bawku should be isolated with state of emergency. So called Security Experts and human rights groups are not helping. They can't enjoy democratic privileges while killing each other and attacking state ...
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  • Khb 8 months ago

    Bawku should have permanent military base and intelligence unit specifically for maintaining peace and stop politicization of the conflict

  • Kwame marfo 8 months ago

    Someone should tell president Mahama that not only northerners and ewes voted for him. If care is not taken NHIS will collapse under his watch in no time. Trust in just three months 21 new directors and deputies had been appo ...
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  • Slim 8 months ago

    The youth of Bawku must rise up above the conflict. Everybody is a loser in a conflict.

    God gave us each other to work together to overcome poverty, disease and ignorance.

    I've never been to Bawku, I'm not associated to ...
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  • Lopez 8 months ago

    Is the writer a real journalist or sensationalist, what is the need for such headline? Some Nd. Politicians played politics during Nana Addo 's regime for some Ghanaians to think that the government had a hand in it. Instead ...
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  • Issa G 8 months ago

    Bawku should be given to Burkina Faso and the borders of Ghana redrawn to establish that permanently. Case closed

  • Bawumia's face is like a guinea fowl 8 months ago

    @ Isaac G. You don't know Geography. Shut your fucking beak one time okay?

  • Eagle Eye. 8 months ago

    Lies upon lies.Was it nit your era as refio8minisyer when hundreds of your time that Bawumia and Nana Addi shipped tons of weapons into Bawku to hp the Mamprusis?What did you say or do then?Just imagine the military type of a ...
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  • Anane 8 months ago

    Believe whatever nonsense you wish to believe. Just stop wasting tax payers' money on your stupid fights.

  • Agyeman 8 months ago

    ....so then, how can one of their own be majority leader?

  • Satch. 8 months ago

    In order to bring eternal peace to Bawku is to dismantle all chieftaincy.Build more police stations to handle disputes among the people. The chiefs have too much power and influence.

  • Scammer Mahama - Scammahama- the Gonja mafia. 8 months ago

    Scammer john Mahama the gonja mafia has nothing new for Ghanaians.

    Before u talk about tribalism, let me remind u that it Scammer John and Isaac Adongo called a sitting president Akyem Mafia.

    The tribalistic gonja mafia ...
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  • Brigadier Sabari v.2 8 months ago

    It's time these idiots are called who they really are. Fools. Leave them to kill themselves. Gyimii sei saa. Every stupid thing has mpepefuor in charge. Instead of the foolish boy Jakpa and the NIB including the incompetent ...
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  • Kwame Peter 8 months ago

    Kwame Marfo,the idiots think it is their turn to eat,very soon there will there will be nothing to eat,next time there’s election all Ghanaians must be psyched up to approach it as life and death matter,it is the only way ...
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  • Akos 8 months ago

    So if the security forces can't end this how would they protect the boarders of Ghana if there is an infiltration?

    All jokes aside MPs of those areas are not working hard to end this. And what are the chiefs doing?

  • Kwaku Boateng 8 months ago

    Speedup the creation of the Kusaug region and everything will be solved once and for all

  • the Villager 8 months ago

    Even Northerners like Chairman Wontumi and AbronyeDC are ruling Ashanti Region and Bon0 Region

  • Everything about bawku and the mamprusis is brigandism. But it has backfired, big time. 8 months ago

    How many Mamprusis houses were in Bawku? Those houses you see in town were for the Yoruba traders who were mentoring in trade of the Mamprusis and during Busias deportation the Yorubas dashed them pro bono or a sympathdtic pr ...
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  • Abena 8 months ago

    Let all of them die so that our money will not be used on them idoits

  • Yaw 8 months ago

    Is high time we northerners understand why others call most of us animals and fools… we are just stupid.we should be fighting for development and not killing our selves.Is time the government pulls out all security forces f ...
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  • Sheikh Osman 8 months ago

    transfer all the security chiefs in the area.
    If a common civilian kllls a military officer or kill police or immigration officers and all that we see is silence. What do you think those civilians would want to do and they ...
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  • Bismark Mawena 8 months ago

    It's the police that caused the conflict to start again. Bcus the police are aware that both the Kusasi and Mamprusi are still on process to settle their differences. So why do they escort Mamprusi women to Kusasi market when ...
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  • Alkabulan 8 months ago

    That npp defence minister is Conconba and he is behind all this tribal war with npp and hijia fati. I could have stopped this nonsense in 3 months without delay ,if was a president of Ghana. As a president you need a simple ...
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  • AMARIYA 8 months ago

    Is the NPP still in power?
    How come the Minister of Defense is an NPP?

  • Fatcobra 8 months ago

    Let's build a solid wall around them and leave them to fight and kill themselves. Ghana is tired of these spoilt brats. The chiefs, opinion leaders, politicians and all the animals there have failed woefully.

  • Bitter truth 8 months ago

    And these are the uncivilized northerners Ndc folks governing Ghana now? How can uncivilized northerners be in the Affairs of Ghana? Mahama has been appointing such kind of people to govern our country..I said the very moment ...
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  • Bitter truth 8 months ago

    Akans should get serious with politics..Ghana will be set backwards anytime is left in the hands of these mpepefuo..it doesn’t matter either mpepefuo are educated or not, they still remain uncivilized..these mpepefuo don’ ...
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  • Unproductive Aggression 8 months ago

    Bawku belong to the Kusau kingdom. Let truth be told. Mamprusis should be content with what they have in the Mamprusi lands in the North East and Northern regions. You have a whole region to yourself.At this day and age why t ...
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  • Moor 8 months ago

    They r attacking everyone? Included the president and the igp? Then our security is either weak or corrupt. Please give me the power to stop these animals. It will take only 24hs to calm Bawku. If these animals refuse gentlen ...
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  • Mad dog 8 months ago

    Animalistic human beings ...always fighting over nothing...I guess they still fighting over a dead dog

  • King 8 months ago

    This people are just sorry to say something ............... The most poorest region , under developed and a lot. Just look at them in the markets doing condemned works and when they get some small money they go to buy gun and ...
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  • Bitter truth 8 months ago

    Well said bro, u don’t have to be sorry..u said nothing but the truth..the Bible said the truth shall set u free..Mpepefuo are not civilized to be in the affairs of politics in Ghana..it will shock u to know that they are p ...
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  • Abdul-Samad Issah 8 months ago

    What we should all remember is that death(from war)has never been,and will never ever be the solution.At a point in time,the tit-for-tat killings will have to end.The longer it takes to reach that point,the further a resoluti ...
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  • the Villager 8 months ago

    Ghanaians who lived through the 1960s and 70s saw how thriving Bawku was (the days of Alhaji Baakomi). Crooked politicians and nasty chiefs have destroyed the city and Kusaug for us.

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  • Karma 8 months ago

    People of Bawku must make their minds to give peace a chance to have tranquility in that region.
    For no one can do that except them.

    Again, politicians must not use politics and try to solve the problems.
    In 2024 genera ...
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  • Prayer 8 months ago

    Isn't Bawumia a Mamprusi? For the 8 years he served as VP,never did he once comment on the Bawku conflict.The man simply has an interest in the case.He gives a damn if hundreds are killed or however much Mpepefou are insulted ...
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  • Bukari 8 months ago

    He actually planned to reshuffle the then regional Minister to the UW and brought the UW to UE so they could send the fugitive to Bawku as a chief. He thought that was going to get him votes. The people showed him who owned t ...
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  • Boamah 8 months ago

    Let me remind you that the bombing started with Nkrumah and we know those who did it. Criminals have been let loose.

  • Kofi Jesus 8 months ago

    Where is the non Akans wise men and Domaahene Agyeman Badu as people are calling Asantehene to solve the Bawku conflict I think those who are always insults Asantehene are the best people to solve the Bawku conflict . After b ...
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  • James Bonsu 8 months ago

    What do they actually want, don't want peace settlement but what, l don't get it.People everywhere want to live peacefully, there is no benefits in every conflicts only destructions, please please please authorities find a w ...
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  • Everything about bawku and the mamprusis is brigandism. But it has backfired, big time. 8 months ago

    Debut faux pas of mce.

  • Visita 8 months ago

    The very people that are speaking against tribalism are the same people who are engaged in tribalism. When they use it to achieve their selfish and parochial interest s,they see nothing wrong with it. They talk against it onl ...
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  • BNI 8 months ago

    There is nothing to solve in Bawku. The supreme court has already pronounced judgement on the chieftaincy issue.

    Simply arrest and prosecute any faction that challenges the ruling and the nonsense would stop eventually

  • Amanoquestion 8 months ago

    Let's leave them

  • JULIO 8 months ago

    KOFI JESUS, STOP FOOLING. WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH OTUMFUOR AND DORMAAHENE. YOU ARE NOT FROM BONO OR ASANTE REGION. WHY THIS COMPARISON. DONT BE STUPID. THERE IS A CONFLICT AND WE ALL WANT IT RESOLVED AND YOU ARE MAKING ...
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  • Alex 8 months ago

    Kindly stop fighting and smoke peace pipe. It is not worth killing people and destroying property.

  • Joseph Wireko-Adumatta 8 months ago

    Electricity and water should be cut off from the town to teach the warring factions a lesson.
    It's simply an ethnic misunderstanding fueled by the politicians.

  • KofSam 8 months ago

    Bawku is not bigger than Ghana . Bawku is a war zone and you don’t send the police to fight a war. The government must send the military to Bawku to force peace . When persuasion fails , force is the next appropriate altern ...
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