By Michael Foli Jackidy, GNA
Ho (V/R), May 01, GNA – Mr Samuel Dodoo, the Executive Director of Media Response, has described the Volta Region as a strategic hub in Ghana’s cross-border movement architecture, stressing the need to strengthen media capacity to promote informed reporting on migration and free movement in West Africa.
He said the Volta Region remained one of Ghana’s most critical border regions due to its location along the Ghana-Togo frontier and its central role in cross-border trade, transport and migration within the West African sub-region.
Mr Dodoo said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) during a training workshop on digital content creation and mini-video blogging on free movement and migration in West Africa for journalists and bloggers in the Volta Region.
The workshop, held in Ho on Wednesday, was organised by Media Response with support from the Free Movement of Persons and Migration in West Africa (FMM West Africa) programme.
Mr Dodoo said the Volta Region was strategically positioned along a major regional corridor linking Lagos, Cotonou, Lomé, Accra and Abidjan, making it a key transit route for the movement of persons and goods across West Africa.
He said the region, particularly through the Aflao Border, served as a major entry and exit point for cross-border traders, transport operators, migrants and West African nationals, making it a critical zone for regional integration and migration governance.
“The Volta Region is very important because it serves as a major corridor for trade, transport and migration in West Africa. A lot of people and goods move through this region daily, and that makes it central to the conversation on free movement and regional integration,” he said.
Mr Dodoo said Media Response had therefore identified the Volta Region as a focal area for sustained public education and media sensitisation on the ECOWAS free movement protocol and migration governance.
He said the organisation had over the years engaged journalists and media practitioners in the region through capacity-building programmes aimed at equipping them with the knowledge and tools needed to report accurately and responsibly on migration-related issues.
Mr Dodoo said the workshop formed part of broader efforts to build a network of journalists capable of sustaining public sensitisation on free movement and migration beyond the lifespan of donor-supported interventions.
GNA
Edited by Maxwell Awumah/Benjamin Mensah