Interior Minister, Muntaka Mubarak, has renewed the curfew in Bawku Municipality and it's surrounding areas in the Upper East Region through an Executive Instrument.

Effective Friday, May 2, 2025, the curfew will be enforced from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m, the Minister directed in a statement.

The Minister in a statement urged chiefs, elders, opinion leaders, youth, and residents to remain calm and use peaceful, non-violent means to address the challenges facing the area and work towards lasting peace.

The government also reminded the public that there is a total ban on the possession of arms, ammunition, or any offensive weapons in the area. Anyone found in violation will be arrested and prosecuted.

Meanwhile, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has assured the public of his commitment to helping resolve the Bawku conflict.

Speaking during a meeting with a delegation from the UK Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Manhyia Palace, he expressed confidence that lasting peace would be achieved in the area.

“We need peace to develop. My duty, together with the traditional authority, is to make sure that there is peace everywhere. Therefore, we make sure that we adjudicate issues when there are conflicts everywhere so that the government can also have peace to do its work.

“Recently, there have been some communal conflict within the upper part of Ghana, closer to Burkina Faso (Bawku), but we are putting in every effort to ensure there is lasting peace,” he stated.