The Bunkprugu-Yunyoo district is one of the eighteen districts of the Northern Region. It was created in the year 2004 as part of the government’s efforts to further decentralize governance.
It has Bunkprugu as its administrative capital. The district is located at the north-eastern end of the Northern Region of Ghana. It shares boundaries in the north with the Garu-Tempane, to the east with Togo, west with East Mamprusi and to the south by Gushegu and Saboba Chereponi.
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One of the prime agenda of the new patriotic party Government since it assumed office in 2001 has been the idea of elevating the status-quo of women to certain pedestal to this end, appointments by his Excellency president john Agyekum Kufour to certain revered positions have seen quite a sizeable number of women clinching those positions that hitherto were reserved for their male counterparts.
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Life has returned to normalcy in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District of the Northern Region after the protracted conflict in the area that led to the displacement of many households.
BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO : Gov’t urged to confiscate disputed lands Members of Bimoba Youth Association (BIYA) of Bunkpurugu Yunyoo District in the Northern Region, have called on government to confiscate disputed lands in the area for public use and compensate the aggrieved parties.
BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO: Ghanaian refugees population in Togo unknown Mr. Ibrahima Traore, United Nations High Commission for Refugees’ (UNHCR), Country Representative in Togo, has said that the UNHCR does not have the actual figure of Ghanaian refugees in the Togolese town of Gbaduak.
BUNKPRUGU-YUNYOO: Bunkprugu displaced persons receive relief items The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in the Northern Region, has dispatched three vehicles loaded with quantities of relief items valued at thousands of Ghana cedis to the victims of the Bunkprugu/Yunyoo conflict.
BUNKPRUGU/YUNYOO : Security withdraw services Security personnel deployed to the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo district in the Northern Region have withdrawn their services due to alleged government’s inability to feed them properly.
