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6/ The pattern across 7 years is consistent: cameras announced, small deliveries made, commitments renewed with each political transition, streets largely unchanged. Civil society was still arguing police *should* wear cameras as recently as July 2025. Full story: labarijournal.com/ghanas-police-…

5/ Research from the Ashanti Regional Command found that even where cameras exist, selective activation is a major problem. The device being on the chest doesn't mean it's recording. And when footage is unavailable, there's no way to tell a technical failure from deliberate concealment.

1/ In 2019, two police misconduct incidents forced the Ghana Police Service (@GhPoliceService) to act. Officers allegedly assaulted journalists. A viral video showed a driver attacking a cop — but no one knew what started it. The police announced body-worn cameras as the fix. That was 7 years ago 🧵 labarijournal.com/ghanas-police-…

Ghana's government is committed to renewing the mining lease for Gold Fields' Tarkwa mine, it said on Monday, adding that it will subject the South African miner to fresh scrutiny of its plans before any renewal is granted. reuters.com/world/africa/g…

End of The Takeaway Pack: Ghana To Ban Styrofoam Products for Commerce in 2027 labarijournal.com/end-of-the-tak…

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Ghana's Police Officers Were Supposed To Be Equipped With Body Cameras Nationwide. Only 800 Have Been Deployed labarijournal.com/ghanas-police-…

5/ Adusah now lives in Maryland, USA, preaching under a third name. Former partners describe coercive control. Charmain's son Isaac says Adusah hit both him and his mother. Her family says she had found out he used a false name, had another wife in Ghana, and was planning to leave him. No one has been charged. The questions remain open. Full story: labarijournal.com/a-scottish-wom…

4/ A BBC Disclosure investigation found the Ghanaian police inquiry had serious gaps. A retired Scottish detective who reviewed the files said the omission of the late-night visitors was "very strange." A church member who heard the couple arguing loudly that night — and heard the call cut off abruptly — never had her statement passed to Ghanaian investigators.

1/ Charmain Speirs was 40, a single mother, a committed Pentecostal Christian in Swansea. She met Prophet Eric Adusah online in 2014. He was a London-based pastor with a TV presence and a following. They married in September. By March 2015, she was dead in a hotel bathtub in Koforidua, Ghana.

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will seek a second and final four-year term in January after overwhelmingly defeating a little-known challenger in ruling party primaries, results showed on Sunday. reuters.com/world/africa/n…

Bank of Ghana Revoked GN Bank's License. Seven Years Later, A High Court Restored It Back labarijournal.com/bank-of-ghana-…

A BBC investigation into the death of Charmain Speirs has exposed critical gaps in the Ghanaian police inquiry — and a pattern of alleged abuse by her husband, Prophet Eric Adusah labarijournal.com/a-scottish-wom…