Emerging Security Threats in Ghana

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 0.00, , language: English, abstract: Ghana has made remarkable progress in democratic governance over the years. While the state has made improvement in relative democratic development and political stability, emerging security threats threaten the national peace, stable and democratic development of the state. This study sought to unravel the emerging security threats in Ghana which will enable and help the appropriate authorities in policy and decision making. Information from reports, website, textbooks, journals and other important documents was used. The study extablished that, emerging security threats such as chieftaincy, farmer-herder conflict, succession agitations, drug trafficking, electoral violence, vigilantism, terrorism, extremism, environmental security, kidnappings, among others have intensified the security alarms in the country. These emerging security threats undermine the stable and democratic development of the state. The study therefore recommended that: the government of Ghana must increase and enhance the number of check points in the country. The government of Ghana must also recruit more border patrol officers especially in the Ghana Immigration Service to patrol and secure the country’s borders and man all porous unapproved routes in the country. Moreover, the government of Ghana must provide appropriate weapons, equipment, tools and technology that will facilitate border management and increase intelligence sharing among appropriate security agencies in the country.