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 implementation of the NDC government’s “Better Ghana” agenda programme has triggered a boost in the socio-economic development in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district, as myriads of projects had been drawn to the area to improve the lives of residents.
SAWLA: Assembly to salvage fallen standards of education Despite the heavy investment given to education in the Sawla-Tuna-kalba district, the standard of education in the area keep declining, as performance of the Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) for the past two years is gradually getting worse.
SAWLA: Feeder roads get facelift A number of feeder roads in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District have seen improvement in the quest to improving transportation in the district.
SAWLA: Kanchen, Nahari provided with classroom blocks The NDC government is still covering up some more schools in the local areas of the country with the construction of dignified and standard structures to enable its educational move of “quality and accessibility” scheme to be realized.
SAWLA: Residents get more streetlights About 150 number of streetlights have been installed at vantage points on the streets of Sawla township to make government’s energy delivery programme meaningful in the sawla-Tuna-Kalba district.
