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British teenagers await drug smuggling
verdict in Ghana
By Steve Bloomfield in Accra
Published: 18 November 2007
Two British teenagers accused of attempting to smuggle
6.5kg of cocaine from Ghana to the UK in laptop bags will
discover their fate on Wednesday.
Yetunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever, from Islington, north
London, were arrested by British and Ghanaian officers as
part of Operation Westbridge, a joint operation tackling the
problem of drugs being transported from South America to
Europe via West Africa. For the past three years Ghana has
been setting new records for drugs seizures in Africa. West
Africa is "increasingly at the intersection between big
European traffickers and major South American producers,"
said Emmanuel Leclaire, Interpol's assistant-director for
criminal organisations and drugs. "We're seeing traffickers
taking small planes and adding extra fuel tanks to give them
enough range to cross the Atlantic."
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Throw no life line to Nyonyo Agboada
November 19, 2007, Press Release - We the concerned
citizens of Anlo in the diasporas find it very audacious and
unacceptable for Francis Nyonyo Agboada (aka Seth Lumorvi
Atsitsogbui aka Francis Osei Agboada) to lay down
preconditions for cessation of his crimes against Anlo.
Simply put, that will be “adding insult to injury”. ....More
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President Kufuor attends thanksgiving mass
Accra, Nov. 18, Ghanadot/GNA - President John Agyekum
Kufuor and his wife, Theresa, on Sunday joined hundreds of
worshippers at the Christ the King Catholic Parish to give
thanks to God for his escape in last Wednesday's car crash
at an intersection on the Airport-37 Road....
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British teenagers await drug
smuggling verdict in Ghana
Nov 18, Independent, UK -
Two British teenagers accused of attempting to smuggle 6.5kg
of cocaine from Ghana to the UK in laptop bags will discover
their fate on Wednesday. ..........More
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New move to bring electricity
to Africa
CSMonitor - The "Lighting
Africa" initiative, including a $12 million competition to
design the best business model for providing light for
Africans, hopes to do for cheap low-energy lighting what
entrepreneurs have already done for cellphones.
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