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General News of Wednesday, 12 June 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>bbc.com<\/p>\n2019-06-12\n\n

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General News of Wednesday, 12 June 2019<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>bbc.com<\/p>\n

2019-06-12<\/p>\n

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\"CanadianOne of the rescued girls<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Two Canadian women have been rescued after they were kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ghana’s second city, Kumasi, a government minister has said.<\/p>\n

The two unnamed students, aged 19 and 20, were working as volunteers for a charity when they were seized.<\/p>\n

Kidnappings in Ghana, regarded as one of West Africa’s most stable states, are extremely rare.<\/p>\n

However, there have been several recently, usually involving ransom demands.<\/p>\n

Security forces carried out an operation in the early hours of Wednesday to rescue the women, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has vowed to take tough action to end the spate of abductions in the country.<\/p>\n

The chairman of Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was briefly detained by police on Tuesday as a suspect in kidnappings.<\/p>\n

“Credible and actionable intelligence” led to the arrest of Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, police said in a statement posted on Twitter, without specifying which kidnappings he was allegedly linked to.<\/p>\n

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo has not commented on the allegations, but NDC general secretary Aseidu Nketia said his arrest was an attempt to “intimidate us and frustrate our activities”.<\/p>\n

In April, an Indian man was seized in Kumasi by an armed gang demanding a ransom. He was later rescued by police.<\/p>\n

An Estonian diplomat was also rescued by police after being kidnapped in April in the capital, Accra, Ghanaweb reported.<\/p>\n

Police are still searching for three Ghanaian women kidnapped in December in the southern city of Takoradi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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