Violent Incidents have declined in the 1st quarter of 2024. This is the 3rd consecutive quarterly decline of violent incidents being monitored by FOSDA. In 2023, FOSDA recorded a total of 82 incidents in the 1st quarter, 143 in the 2nd quarter, 122 in the 3rd and 106 in the 4th quarter. In the 1st quarter of 2024, a total of 67 incidents was recorded. In comparison, this is a decrease by 39 (37%) against the 106 incidents recorded in the 4th quarter of 2023. It also represents a decrease by 15 (18%) in comparison to the 82 incidents recorded in the 1st quarter of 2023
In the 1st quarter of 2024, the Ashanti Region leads the violent incidents count after recording 13 incidents which contributed 19.4% of total incidents. Central Region follows closely with 12 incidents representing 17.9%. The Greater Accra and Eastern Regions each recorded 8 incidents representing 11.9% for each. Northern Region recorded 6 incidents representing 9%. Upper East contributed 5 incidents representing7.5% and Volta Region contributed 3 incidents representing 4.5%. Five regions including Oti, North East, Bono, Upper West and Ahafo recorded 2 incidents each representing 3% for each. Western North and Bono East Regions also recorded an incident each representing 1.5% for each. There were no incidents in Western North and Bono East Regions. In this monitoring 14 out of 16 regions recorded a violent incident.
Physical violence (56 out of 67 regions) and gun related violence (10 out of 67 regions) continue to dominate the media monitoring of violent incidents. Together they contribute 66 (99%) of the violence.
From the records it appears that for every violent incident, roughly 1 to 2 people get injured or die. Also, the cases related to robberies and assault dominate the violent manifestation of the incidents recorded for the 1st quarter of 2024. The data in this report emanates from the open-source monitoring exercise of 10 major media outlets in Ghana, covering both online and newspaper sources by FOSDA.
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2023 1st Quarter: https://fosda.org/2023/05/04/central-region-tops-violent-incidents-chart-for-jan-march-2023/
2023 2nd Quarter: https://fosda.org/2023/07/31/central-region-tops-violent-incidents-chart-for-2nd-time-in-a-row-under-fosdas-monitoring/
2023 3rd Quarter: https://fosda.org/2023/11/01/violent-incidents-decrease-by-15-in-third-quarter-of-2023/
2023 4th Quarter: https://fosda.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FOSDA-ViolentIncidentsMonitoring_qtr4_2023.pdf