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He interviewed some Ghanaian and West African prisoners about the maltreatment and deaths of foreign prisoners in jail, exposing the abuse of expatriates in Thai prisons. As a result of Anas' work, the government of Ghana successfully negotiated with the Thai government for the transfer of all convicted Ghanaian prisoners in Thailand to Ghana.
Regular sweeps are conducted on marine vessels and on passengers at airports as part of security checks.During these inspections, if any suspected narcotic products are found, they are confiscated by the board and tested to determine their substance. The offenders are then brought before the courts to face legal proceedings.
Ghana is a country of origin, transit, and destination for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution. [2] The nonconsensual exploitation of Ghanaian citizens, particularly children, is more common than the trafficking of foreign migrants. [2]
The trip was ostensibly to buy wrist watches for resale in Ghana with US$9,000 seized from Amoateng. [11] Seven boxes of pottery which had landed at Newark Liberty International Airport from London, destined for JFK a day earlier, were found to contain 136 pounds of heroin. The reported street value of the drugs was about US$6 million.
In 2021, 4.15% of Ghana's GDP was spent on health, [14] and all Ghanaian citizens had access to primary health care. Ghanaian citizens make up 97.5% of Ghana's population. [ 15 ] Ghana's universal health care system has been described as the most successful healthcare system on the African continent by the renowned business magnate and tycoon ...
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The 15-year-old boy was arrested Thursday morning at his grandmother's house, where police found additional pills suspected to be the same narcotic that was sold to the girls, police said.
The US arrested 21 Nigerians for drug offenses, and then many more thereafter. In Europe an official of the West German Interior Ministry reportedly said the following year that Hamburg, Germany was importing a serious amount of drugs from West Africa, including one and a half tonnes of a mystery drug (presumably marijuana) from Ghana. [3]