A number of communities in the Bawku west district along the Burkina Faso border including Widnaba have been overwhelmed with Burkinabes fleeing from terrorist attacks.
More of the asylum seekers continue to pour in from Burkina Faso towns of Zoaga, Bugri and Zagre on Sunday January 15.
Tricycles, motorbikes, bicycles and other means of transport full of women, children, and their personal belongings continue to arrive at Widnaba from the Burkinabe town of Zoaga.
The Zoaga, Bugri and Zagre settlements have been deserted according to border inhabitants or asylum seekers who are still pouring into Widnaba in Ghana, in the Bawku west district.
The people there are seeking refuge in Ghana instead of anywhere else in Burkina Faso.
The communities were first attacked on the previous market day on Friday January 13.
The asylum seekers claimed that the terrorists threatened to return on the next market day to hunt for people who were given armed to back to the Burkinabe authority in fighting them.
The residents of Widnaba say they are overwhelmed by the number of seeking asylum from the Burkina Faso towns.
Not less than twenty displaced people are being accommodated by a household in Widnaba.
The Ghanaian authorities have meanwhile increased security along the Ghana Burkina Faso border including air patrols.
There is also heavy deployment of security the communities where the asylum seekers are being camped.
in the meantime, the Ghana immigration service and national disaster management organization, NADMO, are vigorously undertaking data collection in the affected communities.
