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Truckers killed: WACCE calls for the creation of a counterterrorism center
Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar, executive director of the West African Center for Countering Extremism, WACCE, called for the establishment of a counter-terrorism center in the country following the killing of two truck drivers. Ghanaian truck near the border between Burkina Faso and Mali.
The two drivers were reportedly killed by the terrorists when they stopped at the security fence near the border between Burkina Faso and Mali, in the town of Koury, in order to regulate their movements, at a cost of 1,000 FCFA.
S addressing Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar, the center's executive director for Starr News called for the creation of an anti-terrorism center for truck drivers working in the country's West African sub-region
According to him: "We need a counter-terrorism or intelligence coordination center that deals with intelligence threats, in terms of threat updates."
He also called for the training of Ghanaian truck drivers working in the West African subregion
& # 39; & # 39; For truck drivers taking this route in West Africa, you must be able to take the necessary steps in terms of intelligence, you must liaise with local security agencies to ensure coordination of information, you must know the level of threat on these roads. . So you have to be able to integrate that into their work. Some of these types act as private businessmen, but you need local intelligence to be able to determine the safety of the routes they take. "
& # 39; & # 39; As a private person, there is never enough preparation, you must be able to keep in touch with the local authorities on the ground to be able to ensure security. I would have expected a public information center that you can use to report suspicious events or activities or to ask for information about certain aspects of security. "
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Officials confirmed the deaths of two Ghanaian drivers near the border between Burkina Faso and Mali.
According to the acting president of the Joint Association of Port Transport Union, the late Alhaji Shamsu Baba Yaro was identified as Mouhamed Moumen and Suleiman Gariba.
They reportedly stopped near a security fence near the border between Burkina Faso and Burkina Faso, in a town called Koury, to settle their trip, where they had to pay 1,000 FCFA.
The trucks had left the port of Takoradi (Ghana) with slabs of soil and were heading to the Malian capital, Bamako, for delivery to an importer.
Ghana has recently been put on high alert after warnings that terrorists are likely to expand their activities in the country.
The alarming upsurge of jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso is increasingly threatening the security of three of its coastal neighbors, including Ghana.
Fears for security have increased since the killing of four Burkinabe customs officers and a Spanish priest who was returning from a meeting in Lome, in the Togolese capital.
They were killed just after crossing the border.
Bakary Sambe, director of the Timbuktu Institute in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, said the upsurge of violence "suggests that Burkina Faso is the last hurdle these groups want to overcome to reach the coast."
Northern Ghana, Togo and Benin could become "ideal crossroads" for jihadists hiding in forested areas or isolated rural areas along the porous border, he added.
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