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• Police Rescue Ten Schoolchildren

  The police at Nyamebekyere Mile 32 Checkpoint in the Nzema East District in the Western Region have rescued 10 children wearing school uniforms, and said to have been hidden in a 207 Mercedes Benz cargo van for sale in Cote d’Ivoire. The Axim District... Posted Aug 15 2008, 12:38 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Child trafficking, Police, Crime

• Another slave master caught!

  Luck eluded Kombert Lati, a 30-year-old suspected slave master from Garu in the Upper East Region when he and five accomplices, who were trafficking 18 suspected slaves to the Ivory Coast, were intercepted at Apemenim near Agona Nkwanta in the Ahanta... Posted Jul 30 2008, 10:46 AM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: Upper East Region, Child trafficking, Crime

• Six-Man Gang Busted At Kwesimintsim

  The police at Kwesimintsim yesterday intercepted a 207 Mercedes Benz bus carrying six suspected child traffickers and 17 children said to have been picked from Garu in the Upper East Region for sale in Cote d’Ivoire. All the six men are currently in police... Posted Jul 29 2008, 01:10 PM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: Kwesimintsim, Child trafficking, Crime

• Boy sellers jailed 40 years

  Two young men who offered a 16-year-old boy for sale have been jailed 20 years each by the Tarkwa Circuit Court. The victim, Akwesi Buabeng, was offered for sale at Sefwi-Asawinso in the Westem Region at a price of GH¢30,000. He was transported from Kumasi... Posted Jul 09 2008, 10:23 AM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: Tarkwa, Child trafficking, Crime

• Beware Of Kidnappers

  Can you remember the number of times you have heard an announcement on radio or TV about a missing child? I’m sure you must have read about this also in the newspapers. Sometimes some of these children are very fortunate to be found. There are many others... Posted Jun 25 2008, 01:48 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Headline, Child trafficking, Crime

• Child surveillance teams receive support

  The Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS), a Tamale-based NGO on Tuesday presented 120 bicycles to child surveillance teams (CSTs) in two districts in the Northern Region to enable them to monitor and halt child trafficking. The beneficiaries... Posted Jun 18 2008, 11:24 AM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Child trafficking, Crime

• Two before court for child trafficking

  Two farmers, Tei Mensah and Yao Charles had been arraigned before the Suhum Magistrate court, presided over by Mr E.M. Essandoh, charged with child trafficking. The accused persons whose plea was not taken were remanded in custody to re-appear before... Posted Jan 24 2008, 02:54 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Child trafficking

• Ghana Tackles Child Labour •In Cocoa Areas

  Government, in a move to reduce the worst forms of child labour in the country’s cocoa growing areas to the barest minimum by 2011, had set up a National Programme for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) in Cocoa (NPECLC). The strategic... Posted Jan 14 2008, 03:40 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Child Labour, Child trafficking

• NGO survey communities for child trafficking

  The Parent and Child Foundation (PACF), a child protection non-governmental organisation (NGO), has set up a three-member community surveillance team charged to 'police' the communities of Oshiyie, Bortianor, Ada and Tsokome. The team is to ensure... Posted Dec 11 2007, 07:21 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: NGO, Child trafficking