separation anxiety

Ghana gets tough on secessionists two years after major raid

By Kent Mensah

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Posted on April 5, 2023 09:57

 File photo of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. © Nipah Dennis / AFP.
File photo of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. © Nipah Dennis / AFP.

Ghana has served notice to a revolutionary separatist movement seeking to forge a new West African nation by jailing five of its members for 25 years in total after a trial that lasted for close to three years.

The Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) based in Ghana’s Volta Region – 158km northeast of the capital Accra – has, since 2017, been engaged in a series of activities aimed at seceding the Volta and Oti regions – sharing borders with Togo – from the territories of Ghana.

The group calls their dream country “Western Togoland”. The two regions serve as the stronghold of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

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