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Government is to invest about $2.5 billion in security and intelligence Agencies in the country in the next two years to solve their infrastructural and equipment challenges. Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, the Minister for Security, said this at a day’s workshop organised for members of the national Immigration Management Committee and…

The Police will work with the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) to strengthen security in cocoa growing regions to protect License Buying Companies, farmers and communities from arbitrary attacks from armed robbers. The decision followed discussions COCOBOD held with the Ghana Police Service on important issues concerning the Cocoa Industry and…

GIS to set up health departments at border post May 10, 2021 The Minister for the Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, has called on the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to set up a Department of Health, as part of its Border Management Department to empower the service to stop the “importation” of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases into the country. According to him, setting up such a department with health officers within the Border Management Department would save the cou...

  Mr Ambrose Dery, the Minister of the Interior, says COVID-19 is a real threat to national security and called for effective collaboration among security officials to use innovative ways to combat the pandemic. “The Covid-19 pandemic is a threat to national security and must be dealt with as such,” he said. “Events around the world have clearly shown that no single country or institution has been able to tackle the devastating pandemic alone.” Mr Dery said this during the opening ...

Myanmar Junta’s Leadership Has No Idea What Forces Have Been Unleashed Soldiers are deployed in Yangon to crack down anti-regime protesters on March 3. / The Irrawaddy 1.5k By CHARLES PETRIE 1 May 2021 The coup is destined to fail. It will fail because the senior leadership has not understood how much less in control of the country the Tatmadaw (the military) actually is today. The coup is a total overreach by the Commander in Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Not only did the coup com...

Military officers get more financial powers to better tackle China-like challenges, cut procedural delays In a first, the Centre has given financial powers of up to Rs 200 crore to military officers below the level of vice-chief to empower the armed forces to make big-ticket capital procurement and cut down on procedural delays. advertisement UPDATED: February 18, 2021 07:46 IST This is the first time such powers have been given below the level of vice-chiefs in view of the emerging security ch...

The financial powers have been approved for projects under the 'Other Capital Procurement Procedure' category, they said. Financial powers to clear projects worth up to Rs 200 crore have been delegated to Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Air Officer Maintenance and Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff as well as to additional director general of Indian Coast Guard.