Residents of the Bawku municipality have hailed the change in the curfew hours from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. - 5 a.m. as a move in the right direction. This, according to them, is because relative peace has returned to the area and people were going about their normal businesses. They were particularly happy because the curfew hours seriously affected not only their businesses but their social life to the extent that the youth who did not possess T.V. sets at home were being denied the opportunity to watch matches of the Ghana 2008. Those seriously affected included food vendors, coffee and tea shop operators, communication centres and transport operators. Sources close to the Bawku Municipal Assembly said that they were losing lots of revenue from landing fees from transit vehicles to neighbouring countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Togo. An officer of the military data at Bawku when contacted simply said "Everything is cool and under control". Another trader, however, made a passionate appeal to all in the area to behave responsibly so that the curfew would be lifted completely to enable them to return to normal social and economic activity. When the Information Services Department van went round the municipality to announce the reduction of the curfew hours, they were greeted with shouts of jubilation by the people. In a related development, Mr. Alhassan Samari, the Upper East Regional Minister, Wednesday received 350 bales of temporary tents ¬valued at GH¢l.05 billion from the UNHCR in collaboration with the Ghana Red Cross Society, for victims of the Bawku conflict. Source: The Ghanaian Times