The Tragic Murder of Ahmed Suale: A Story of Courage and Loss
Photo: Ahmed Hussein-Suale On the fateful night of January 16, 2019, a tranquil evening in Madina, a suburb of Accra, was abruptly interrupted by the sound of gunfire. At first, it sounded like firecrackers to Unus Alhassan, who wondered why anyone would be setting off fireworks so long after Christmas. The Alhassan family was sitting outside their home, engaged in their usual late-night conversations. Ahmed Hussein-Suale, Unus's brother, had just left to check on a sick nephew. The Night of the Attack Close to midnight, the gunshots rang out. The neighborhood quickly returned to its usual noise, and Unus resumed his conversation with his family, not giving the sounds another thought until a man came running towards him, yelling that his brother had been killed. About a hundred meters down the road, Ahmed, 31, was found slumped in the driver's seat of his dusty blue BM...