{"id":116048,"date":"2026-02-19T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=116048"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:33:27","slug":"ecowas-backs-full-probe-into-killing-of-ghanaian-traders-in-burkina-faso-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=116048","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS backs full probe into killing of Ghanaian traders in Burkina Faso attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it supports a full\u2011scale investigation into the brutal killing of Ghanaian traders by the Jama\u2019at Nasr al\u2011Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) terrorist group in Titao, northern Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with Joy\u202fNews\u2019s Blessed Sogah on the sidelines of the ECOWAS Navy Chiefs Summit in Accra, Abdel\u2011Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, strongly condemned the February 14 attack and stressed the need for accountability.<\/p>\n

The attack, which targeted a group of Ghanaian tomato traders travelling through the volatile Sahel corridor, left eight Ghanaians dead and others injured. The victims were ambushed by suspected JNIM militants \u2014 an extremist group active across the region \u2014 as they carried out routine cross\u2011border trade between northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. <\/p>\n

President John Mahama has been visiting survivors at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, where injured traders are receiving treatment after being evacuated by the Ghana Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

The incident has reignited concern over the safety of Ghanaian nationals engaging in informal regional commerce, particularly along routes where insurgent groups operate with increasing frequency. Cross\u2011border trade in agricultural products such as tomatoes and onions is a vital livelihood for many northern Ghanaian communities, but has become riskier due to deteriorating security conditions in parts of the Sahel. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it supports a full\u2011scale investigation into the brutal killing of Ghanaian traders by the Jama\u2019at Nasr al\u2011Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) terrorist group in Titao, northern Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with Joy\u202fNews\u2019s Blessed Sogah on the sidelines of the ECOWAS Navy Chiefs Summit in Accra, Abdel\u2011Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, strongly condemned the February 14 attack and stressed the need for accountability.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1972,4207,2407,1900,1883,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-burkina-faso","category-ecowas","category-hp-news-2","category-national","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}