The Sawla-Tuna- Kalba District is a young one carved out of the then Bole District in 2004. Indeed, the District was one of the twenty-eight (28) districts created in that year. As one of the twenty (20) districts in the Northern Region, the district is located in the western part of the Northern Region, between latitudes 8 40o and 9 40 o North and longitudes 1 o 50 and 2 o 45 o West.
The District shares common boundaries with Wa West District and Wa East to the North, Bole District to the South, West Gonja District to the East and La Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso to the West. It has a total land area of about 4,601 square kilometers out of the total area of 74,984 kilometers of the Northern Region, representing six point fourteen percent (6.14%) of the total land mass of the Northern Region. Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District capital (Sawla) is about 210 kilometers North West of Tamale, the Regional capital in the Republic of Ghana.
chief executive's message
Our main goal of Sawla –Tuna- Kalba District is to achieve accelerated and sustainable-shared growth, poverty reduction and promotion and empowerment of the vulnerable and excluded within a decentralized democratic environment.
For the tourism industry is to be promoted and developed, we are making it essential for the District Assembly to create the necessary enabling environment for Private/NGO participation.
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latest news
The District Chief Executive for Sawla Tuna Kalba District in the Northen Region, Mumuni Isaac Dramani has launched two new vaccines in the area known as Pnemococal and rotavirus.
SAWLA: Girl’s model JHS gets additional dormitory structure In line with the “Better Ghana” agenda in the Sawla-Tuna Kalba District in the Northern Region, school children at the Sawla Girls’ Model Junior High School (JHS) have been supported with adequate structures to promote quality education.
SAWLA: Assembly to drill 20 more boreholes A total of 20 additional boreholes are to be drilled for different communities in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district to address the water challenges in the area.
