Country Reports on Terrorism 2008 - Ghana

Ghana's parliament passed, and President Kufuor signed, a Counterterrorism Act that made it an offense to commit or to provide financial or material assistance to a person or group which commits an act of terrorism. The Act also allows, with a court order, police to intercept communications, for the Director of Immigration to order the removal on non-citizens believed to be involved in the commission of a terrorist act, and for a national identification card program to be implemented. The cards will contain bio-metric data such as fingerprints and photos. AFRICOM provided the Ghanaian Navy with four 27-foot patrol boats to improve maritime interdiction capacity to help address Ghana's limited capacity to patrol its porous borders, including its maritime border. Ghana also passed an anti-money laundering law that provides for the establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU); at year's end, the FIU had not yet been established.

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