"On February 6, Ghanaian security services raided the EBLA compound. On that same day the group stopped posting on the social media accounts it had created. One of the workers told CNN they were told to lie on the ground and had guns pointed at them. They were interrogated by police and the phones used to post on the fake accounts were confiscated.Intelligence agencies exploiting discord and fracture points in the societies of rival or hostile powers is likely as old as the existence of nation states themselves, but the internet and social media make it a squillion times more effective. And it's a lot more effective against democracies than autocracies.
When CNN visited the compound two weeks later, it appeared to have been abandoned.
In a statement to CNN, the Ghanaian security services said their Cyber Security Unit had become suspicious of EBLA's activities and believed it was engaged in "organized radicalism with links to a foreign body." They added that they had determined that "EBLA receives its funding from an anonymous source in a European country."
Ghanaian security sources subsequently told CNN that all of EBLA's funding had come from Russia."
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