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BY: The Conversation
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Modern secession claims find their roots in the Trusteeship System of the UN. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA
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Ghana’s secessionist conflict is rooted in a system that was meant to promote peace.
Over the past couple of years, Ghana has also been kept on tenterhooks by calls for secession. In November 2019, the Homeland Study Group Foundationdeclared the independence of “Western Togoland”. Its call was for the secession of Ghana’s Volta region and parts of the Northern and Upper East regions. At first peaceful, this demand led to violence in September 2020 with the emergence of the Western Togoland Restoration Front.