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Ghanaian tomato traders caught in terrorist attack in Burkina Faso - Ministry of Interior

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  • Akwesi Na Pioe 18 hours ago

    Useless NPP. They are making ready to jump unto this too for propaganda purposes. Press Conference loading. Stupid fools

  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 18 hours ago

    Allah is the devil....

  • Karikakchar 17 hours ago

    Terrorist in Africa, financed by?

  • Kweku Tsin 17 hours ago

    Why are we even buying tomatoes from Burkina?

  • One of Mahama's first. Other has never hapoed before 15 hours ago

    Let's hope that no lives are lost. As for the money, it can be recouped.

  • Dungeon Master 15 hours ago

    The French are clearly resentful after being ousted by Burkina Faso. With French troops stationed in Ghana, could this serve as a pretext for war against the Burkinabes? It wouldn't be surprising if the French manipulated Gha ...
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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 14 hours ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper. Search online for ways to move away from evil islam.........You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe......... ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 12 hours ago

    IF LUV COUP, GO AND LIVE IN BURKINA FASO!!!!!

  • Dungeon Master 9 hours ago

    Why dont you join the Russian army instead of starving in Ghana?

  • Alokoto 14 hours ago

    Why can't we irrigate our land and cultivate our own tomatoes? What are we doing with the Volta Lake? Why should we allow that poor country to be competing with us? The Burkinabes should not forget that their people who fled ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 12 hours ago

    No one died? Fools. This big land in Ghana you cant.grow.ypur own tomatoes? Foolishness leadership

  • BONGO 11 hours ago

    GHANAIANS ARE JUST NOT SERIOUS. THEY ALWAYS WANT TO REAP WHERE THEY HAVE NOT SOWN. SOMEBODY MUST WORK AND DEVELOP A PLACE FOR THEM TO GO AND STAY IN COMFORT MOSTLY WITH STOLEN MONEY. I PITY PRESIDENT JDM. HE CARES ABOUT A PEO ...
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  • Koo Manu 9 hours ago

    @karikakchar
    As long as Africa cannot organize and form any defence for our territories, these terrorists will continue to make inroads and harass our women. We need an African High Command similar to NATO.

  • Let Christ's love leads you 16 hours ago

    Where is your lifestyle,choices and deeds leading you to today? Is it to God, our heavenly Father or away from him? Is it to heaven, our blissful eternal home or to hell, eternal condemnation and destruction. Take a quiet m ...
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  • Paf 13 hours ago

    U mami c

  • Wwwe 16 hours ago

    Animal Ndc ofuibiba kwasiman idiot may it will becoming from Ur stupid useless Ndc party to cover up the cocoa beans issues hmm ofuibiba

  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 14 hours ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper. Search online for ways to move away from evil islam.....You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe..... You are not ...
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  • Papakyene 15 hours ago

    @ Akwesi
    Wo y3 kwasea paaaa

  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 14 hours ago

    The handy work of Fulani Islamic terrorosts.

  • TRAORE HAS FAILED! 17 hours ago

    When he overthrew the govt , the civilian Government then controlled 80% of the country and the Jihadist 20%. He went into villages and massacred innocent people.

    Now the Jihadist control 50% of the coubyry and civilian ...
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  • He plans to relocate to Ghana! 17 hours ago

    He is preparing to escape to Ghana. I understand he has bought a house in Bolga. He knows the net is closing on him!

    He knows the Russians couldnt help Gaddafi, Assad or Iran. So he has his 100m shoes by his bedside to do ...
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  • Joe Lacece 17 hours ago

    Waa look, a goat like you should be kept in a goat pen and never left to roam around. As far as am concerned Stupidity is contagious and your level of stupidity is bond to affect others

  • Come Back With Insults 17 hours ago

    Instead of insults which does not build or edify you i will pump wisdom into your head so you can debate like an intelligent human.

    As we speak the Coup Plotters in Niger are negotiating with the Jihadist. Niger gets its ...
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  • Dan Fulani 17 hours ago

    Animal. So you think Civilian governments are the ones who can defeat terrorists? You are very stupid. The terrorists started their siege to Islamize the whole of West Africa long time ago and are bent on doing that irrespec ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 17 hours ago

    How can you lie through your Anus like that. This is not the problem with B’Faso alone. Even Nigeria with all his wealth and Military Power is experiencing the same thing. Have you checked from some countries in the subregi ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 12 hours ago

    @Frank Agyena-Karkari. Your grammar is appalling! “ Even Nigeria with all “his” wealth and Millitary Power “….

  • Ghanaba Jr. 16 hours ago

    Facts or personal opinions, my friend.

  • Kwans 17 hours ago

    It's unfortunate the attack happened but it's a shame that Ghana could depend on Burkina Faso for tomatoes.

  • Nuwaay 17 hours ago

    May God save them. We pray to hear each and everyone to be alive. Let wait as investigation is pending.

  • Bro Dickson 17 hours ago

    Bad news ,hope there was no casualties or any serious injuries.just as Jm initiated nkukor kitikiti Governments should try encourage Tomoatoes plantation across Ghana in order to stop going as far as Burkina Faso to purchase ...
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  • Joe Lacece 17 hours ago

    And what is wrong With that? Dont Other countries patronize and buy our cocoa,what is wrong with you guys?

  • Nii Odoi 17 hours ago

    Countries that buy cocoa cannot grow cocoa in their countries. Hence the need to import from Ghana.
    Ghana can grow the same tomatoes available in Burkina. That's why it's wrong to depend on Burkina for tomatoes.
    Even if we ...
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  • Nyankpala 11 hours ago

    How many.of you spewing garbage here would roll.up.your sleeves and cultivate tomatoes? Fools...

  • Sarkodie 16 hours ago

    I learnt they killed all the males caught and spared the females. They also burnt all the trucks

  • Kwaku 17 hours ago

    Cedi is over-valued. That means madae in Ghana goods are very very expensive. We are now importing plantaib from our neighbours

  • Dan Fulani 17 hours ago

    @ Kwaku. So you want the cedi to be under valued isn't it? For that gyimie gyimie Bawumia to go and open his stupid goro chewing mouth at Central University saying, " If wo maame twe is weak, wo papa tu will expose you" . ...
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  • Abokyi 17 hours ago

    You sound too stupid with your comments. Do you live with humans ?

  • Wwwe 16 hours ago

    Animal BMW have sense than ofuibiba JDM kwasiman only GH that have lower inflation but higher cost of living under this ofuibiba kwasiman JDM animal

  • CR7 15 hours ago

    Wofa @Wwwe, wo brofo nny3 koraaaa, adenn

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 12 hours ago

    Gas super is too expensive sive in Ghana

  • Nktt 17 hours ago

    Kwans; You are on points it's a big shame to the nation

  • Agya Otu 17 hours ago

    Why are they still going to BF when Ghana has tomato glut?

  • Bonus Baba 17 hours ago

    Mahama,take your hands off this and allow Traore to deal with this criminals according to Burkina Laws. Mahama,Ghanaians and the world are tired of your leniency. Please stay out of this now and forever

  • Test2 17 hours ago

    GHANA WE HAVE FERTILE LANDS SUN SHIINE 365 DAYS AND MORE THAN ENOUGH OF RAIN FALL
    AND GOVT ALLOWS IMPORTATION OF TOMATOES FROM DESERT NEIBOURING COUNTRY
    WHAT A SHAME
    USELESS COUNTRY LAZY PEOPLE

  • Evans Sarfo Adu 17 hours ago

    You said it the best!

  • Swedru DCE 17 hours ago

    Therefore Planting for Food and Onye gbemi.

  • Wwwe 16 hours ago

    May the good lord guide U and bless Ur family

  • Kwame Angel 17 hours ago

    Change your marketing strategy. Titao is too far up north. Deliver the tomatoes to middlemen in the south - say, ouagadougou, and get back to your country. You do not have to go up north. It is not worth the riak.

  • Marina mall Airport lady and daughter scammer 17 hours ago

    Threw herself infront of a car in front of Marina mall car park.
    Feigning fainting... then wanted money.. go figure.
    Be aware.
    Happened just now. She is wearing a white dress. Daughter is wearing red dress. We just watch ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 17 hours ago

    What's the entire story? Is she feigning that she was hit by a car at the marina mall near Nesbitt Square or what?

  • Kwam 17 hours ago

    I hate to hear stories like this in the first why must we go all the way to Burkina Fasso to buy tomatoes? We not sick in the head as a nation.
    So common tomatoes we can't produce in the country, Ghana

  • TRUST IN THE LORD 17 hours ago

    This is a wake up call to us that, the need for championing agriiculture and agribusiness is now. Let’s be self dependent on some of these basic things and we can retain the millions of dollars spent each year on such veget ...
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  • Mawule 17 hours ago

    When a foolish man is in power these things are inevitable

  • kanawu 17 hours ago

    Muslims are barbarians.
    Any country with 40% or more Muslims is hell to live in

  • . 16 hours ago

    1 Japanese Yen = £0.0048
    1 Ghana Cedis = £0 067
    It's apparent the Ghana Cedis is worth more from the above. But you can also see that Japan is far ahead of Ghana in terms of development and size of economy. You see it's n ...
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  • Omally 16 hours ago

    The women say the tomatoes they buy from their last longer and cheaper than the varieties in Ghana. What has our theory booklong agro scientists been doing?

  • FACT 16 hours ago

    THE 24-HOUR ECONOMY PROPAGANDA SHOULD HAVE MADE GHANA SELF-SUFFICIENT IN FOOD PRODUCTION.
    Why should Ghana import tomatoes from Burkina Faso?
    Ghana has more fertile lands than Burkina Faso but we choose to extract gold fro ...
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  • T.T 16 hours ago

    No one is as useless as Akwesi Ns Pipe himself.

  • Eric Fynn 16 hours ago

    Black man using someone's religion Arabian man Muhammad to kill his fellow black man is totally madness.

  • Will the Ghana Army go after the terrorist ? 15 hours ago

    Let us see if Ghana Army will go for the terorrist. This means we are getting ourselves involved. If not, then what is the life of a Ghanaian worth. However, if the tomatoes would have landed in Ghana, the tax women would hav ...
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  • BugiMay 15 hours ago

    Even tomatoes Ghana cannot produce.

  • Nyameba 15 hours ago

    Its the work of western countries trying to control our minerals and critical minerals.Ibrahim Traore is doing amazing job but Code D’ivoire is undermining his work because of France.Let’s hope for the better because Afri ...
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  • Nyameba 15 hours ago

    Dan Fulani your name define who you are, ANIMAL MAN FROM EWE OR NORTHERN. NDC party always brew STUPID AND FOOLISH ANIMALS WHO CANNOT EVEN COMPARE THEMSELVES TO GOATS WHEN IT COMES TO SENSE

  • The Truth 15 hours ago

    Burkina Faso is not under siege as portrayed by skeptics on this platform. Yes, the country has serious challenges but vast control of the land is under the government.
    I wish people will go there and see the progress going ...
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  • Kojois 15 hours ago

    Fools so can't you grow tomatoes in ghana. Lazy people

  • Traditionalist 14 hours ago

    Had Bawumia,Akuffo Addo and their criminal government built the Pwalugu dam and rehabilitated the Tono, Vea dams and finished the construction of the Tamne dam started by JM in his first term,buying tomatoes from B.Faso would ...
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  • Alex Owusu 14 hours ago

    Its sad our traders were caught in this unfortunate attack .Can we begin to pay more attention to our tomato sector as a country .

  • Akua 14 hours ago

    LET US GROW OUR OWN TOMATOES

  • Peter 13 hours ago

    French troops in Ghana seem to be urgjng terrorist in the southern part of Burkina. This is very disturbing. What are the French troops doing in Ghana?

  • Blaze 13 hours ago

    So we can't cultivate tomatoes in this country on a large scale and put up factories for processing...must we always go to Burkina Faso?

  • Efo 12 hours ago

    Mahama is just stupid because as at now no defence minister

  • Agbeli Kumordziì 11 hours ago

    Sad and unfortunate Ghana a fertile land can't produce tomatoes in Ghana unless Ghanains crosses border into Burkinafaso

  • NDC NPP SAME DEVILy 11 hours ago

    Common tomatoes we cannot produce to consume.
    See wahala

  • H 10 hours ago

    No intelligent comments..just insults and religious nonsense.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 8 hours ago

    SO WHY IS GHANAIANS GOING TO BORKINA TO BUY TOMATOES?

  • Stress free 5 hours ago

    Someone from my hometown is dead they kill everyone inside the car