GHANA DEFENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MINISTERS KILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH

‎Ghanaian presidency, has confirmed that it's defence and environment
ministers were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, hours after the
armed forces reported a chopper carrying three crew and five passengers
dropped off the radar.
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‎Edward Omane Boamah became President John Mahama’s defence
minister earlier this year shortly after Mahama’s swearing-in in January.
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‎While Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed was serving as the minister of
environment, science and technology.
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‎Authorities also confined that, Everyone onboard was killed in the accident.
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‎Boamah was helming Ghana’s defence ministry at a time when jihadist
activity across its northern border in Burkina Faso has become increasingly
restive.
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‎While Ghana has so far avoided a jihadist spillover from the Sahel unlike
neighbours Togo and Benin, observers have warned of increased arms
trafficking and militants from Burkina Faso crossing the porous border to
use Ghana as a rear base.