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Ghana deploys heavy security to police Yaa Naa funerals in the north

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The high security presence, ahead of the funeral of the paramount chief of the Dagomba people, is necessary because of a 2 decades old succession feud. Enmity between 2 competing royal families resulted in the assassination in 2002 of Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II says security analyst Dr. Kwesi Aning. But a sequence of funerals is aimed at defusing the feud. (Image: Ghana's military on security deployment in the country. Credit: Getty Images)

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