Ghana helps police Liberian elections

Ghana has deployed 300 police personnel to help maintain law and order during Liberia's elections on 11th October. Nigeria has agreed to send 240 police personnel. The security forces, which come under the ECOWAS mandate, were supposed to arrive in Liberia ten days before the elections but were delayed because of a lack of financial resources.

Inspector General of Police Paul Tawiah Quaye and his Nigerian counterpart Hafiz Abubakar Ringim met with Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the Castle, Osu, on 7th October to discuss deployment of personnel, funding and the general security situation in Liberia.

During the meeting Mahama called on security services in West Africa to increase intelligence spending in order to fight political and economic crimes in the sub-region.

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Russia and Belarus to invest $1 billion in Ghana

A delegation of Russian and Belarus businessmen have paid a visit to the Ghanaian Vice President John Dramani Mahama to discuss the possibility of investing $1 billion in to the country's fledgling oil and gas industry, as well as other areas including fertilizer production, security and safety services and heavy duty machinery.

"We want to be part of Ghan a's success story...We shall be ready to invest in the areas of trade, industry and agriculture," said, leader of the delegation, Tkachuk Anatoly.

Anatoly said that all the projects would be initiated under different investment arrangements in partnership with the Ghanaian government, and would generate employment for the Ghanaian people.

Vice President Mahama called for closer collaboration between Russia and Ghana and said that Ghana would benifit from Russian investors. The Vice President also sait that he hopes that Russian businesses will support their Ghanaian counterparts in developing Ghana's transport, education and agriculture sectors.

Source: African Manager

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