One doesn’t need statistics from an empirical research to identify with the spate of crime in the Wa Municipality. In fact, observation and real life situations speak volumes than figures. Motorbike theft and burglary are the two main criminal activities in the Wa Municipality. The situation can best be described as the work of a … Read more
Myanmar and Thailand started torching nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as law enforcement struggles to stem the rising flow of drugs in the region. The burnings, to mark world anti-drugs day, follow another year of record seizures of narcotics from the remote borderlands of Myanmar, Laos, … Read more
Kingmakers of the Waala traditional council have enskined former president Jerry John Rawlings as a chief in the Wa Naa’s paramountcy. The enskinment was done at a short ceremony when the former president visited the Wa Naa’s Palace as part of activities to mark the commemoration of the 38th-anniversary of June 4th in Wa. Naa … Read more
The leader of the June 4 uprising and Chairman of the AFRC, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings will be the keynote speaker at a grand durbar in Wa on Sunday June 4, 2017 to climax activities marking the 38th anniversary of the uprising. According to a statement issued by the June 4th Anniversary Planning committee … Read more
Branded as Asia’s most heavily-armed drug dealers, the China-backed ethnic Wa rebels have emerged as key players in Myanmar’s peace process, a development seen as strengthening Beijing’s influence over its violence-wracked neighbour. When Myanmar’s new civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi convened the first round of peace talks with the country’s myriad ethnic groups last … Read more
Seth Amoateng’s late winner kept Wa All Stars in the MTN FA Cup Seth Amoateng’s late winner kept Wa All Stars in the MTN FA Cup courtesy of a 2-1 win over Bolga All Stars at the Malik Jabir Stadium. Bolga dominated proceedings and piled enormous pressure on the host but their wastefulness in front … Read more
Suspected armed robbers made history in the country and returned a whooping amount of fifty one Thousand Nine Hundred Ghana cedis (GH¢51,900.00) they robbed from their victim at the weekend in the Upper West region who is reported to have invoked 8 deities to strike and kill anyone who will spend the said amount . … Read more
Some residents in Wa in the Upper West Region, have voiced out their displeasure with a police officer who made what has been described as insulting and ethnocentric comments against them, following their protests against a police shooting incident. Many feel the officer, Believe Amedzro, should be dismissed from the service for her disparaging remarks against … Read more
Edmund Kokovi, a police officer stationed at Wechiau in the Wa West district of the Upper East Region has been shot and killed by armed robbers. The incident, according to an eyewitness, occurred along the Wechiau-Tokali road on Saturday December 24 when he was reporting for work at the residence of the District Chief Executive … Read more