Medical Staff Abandon Posts
Some medical staff at the Bimbilla district hospital in the Northern Region has abandoned their posts for fear of their lives in renewed chieftaincy clashes in the area. About eleven people were...
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Renewed Kingship Strife In Bimbila Creates Refugee ‘crisis’ In Yendi
A refugee situation has been created in Yendi a second largest but highly polarized city in the Northern region after a six hour heavy fighting between chieftaincy factions in Bimbila, Nanumba North...
Bimbilla Schools Closed Down Over Clashes
Students of the Bimbilla Senior High School and all elementary schools have been asked to stay home following the renewed chieftaincy clashes that claimed 10 lives on Thursday and left many homes...
Suspects For Court On Monday
All 21 suspects arrested in connection with the renewed chieftaincy violence in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern region, will be arraigned before a Tamale Circuit Court on...
Why Thursday’s Mayhem At Bimbilla Happened
A security delegation led by the Northern Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Issahaku Alhassan on Saturday visited Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District capital to assess the security situation...
Residents Flee Bimbilla Over Clashes
More residents are fleeing the Bimbilla township in the Northern Region over the recent clashes that left 10 people dead. The incident which was sparked by a chieftaincy dispute between two factions...
Bimbilla Clashes Create Refugee Crisis In Yendi
A refugee situation has been created in Yendi, a second largest but highly polarized city, in the Northern region after a six-hour heavy fighting between chieftaincy factions in Bimbila, Nanumba...
Calm Returns To Bimbilla As Police-Military Team Intensifies Patrols
There is uneasy calm in the Northern Region town of Bimbilla following the deployment of a team of Police-Military to the area. The enskinment of a sub-chief earlier this week sparked a gun battle...
Minister Reviews Bimbilla Curfew Due To Sporadic Gunfire
Mr Ambrose Dery, the Minister of Interior, has reviewed the protracted curfew on the Bimbilla Community from 1600 hours to 0600 hours with immediate effect, following the sporadic gunfire on...
Security Council Visits ‘troubled’ Bimbilla
The Northern Regional Security Council has visited the Bimbilla township to ascertain the extent of damage last Thursday’s clashes caused. The team was led by the Northern Regional Coordinating...
N/R Security Council Visits ‘troubled’ Bimbilla
The Northern Regional Security Council has visited the Bimbilla township to ascertain the extent of damage last Thursday’s clashes caused. The team was led by the Northern Regional Coordinating...
17 Persons Arrested So Far
Seventeen persons have been arrested in Bimbila after a serious shooting incident Seventeen persons have been arrested in Bimbila after a serious shooting incident which claimed the lives of two...
10 Dead In Ghana Chieftaincy Power Struggle
Seven women and three children were killed and 11 people injured when a dispute among members of a traditional ruler's family in northern Ghana turned violent, police said Friday. Sounds of gunshots...
Leave Government Out of Bimbilla Chieftaincy Clashes
The Minister of Interior Ambrose P Dery has categorically stated that government cannot be blamed for the renewed clashes in Bimbilla that claimed 10 lives and led to dozens of residents suffering...
11 Dead In Bimbilla Conflict
The death toll in the renewed chieftaincy clashes in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region has reached 11. The police have found nine bodies in addition to the previous two,...
Police Deploys Reinforcement To Bimbilla
The Police Administration says it has dispatched personnel from the elite units of the Service to Bimbilla to help maintain law and order in the area. A statement issued by the Director/Public...
Police Deploys Elite Teams To Bimbilla
The police administration says it has dispatched personnel from the elite units of the Ghana Police Service to Bimbilla in the Northern region to help maintain law and order in the area. The...
Bimbilla Regent Under Security Protection
One hundred and thirty police officers and forty soldiers have been deployed at Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region to keep the peace in the area and also protect the Regent...
Gov’t Will Not Interfere With Bimbilla Chieftaincy Issue – Interior Minister
Interior minister, Ambrose Dery says government would not meddle in the Bimbilla chieftaincy dispute, which has led to the death of scores of residents in the Northern Regional town. He said...
International NGOs Call For Police Protection To Evacuate Staff
International Non Governmental Organisations offering humanitarian services and developmental projects in the Nanumba North district in the Northern region are withdrawing their services due to the...