Guns, Charcoal, and Fear: The triggers behind Gulumpe’s dusk-to-dawn lockdown

A dispute over charcoal trade in Kintampo North has plunged the entire municipality into a security crisis, with thousands fleeing the area.

The government has imposed a mandatory curfew and banned everything from the use of motorbikes to war regalia after a clash between Gonja and Kokomba youth turned deadly in Gulumpe.

Correspondent Anass Sabit visited the Bono East Region community with the Regional Security Council and has come through with the latest from the front lines of this sudden conflict.