The Bole District lies between Latitude 8 10’ 5 and 09’ and Longitude 1 50E and 2 45 W. The Bole District is located at the extreme western part of the Northern Region of Ghana. The Bole District covers an area of about 4800 square km; out of the area of 70,384sq km of the Northern region. It has an estimated population of about 75,151 (2000 population projected) The population rate is about 3.6% per annum. The population is sparse with a density of about 14 per a km. The District Capital Bole is the only biggest town in the district. Other major towns include Bamboi, Maluwe, Tinga, Tasilma, Mandari and Banda/Nkwanta. For the percentage land take of District and the Northern Region in relation to Ghana (238,533sq km), they are 2.0% and 29.6% respectively. This means that the land take of the district is 6.8% of the total land mass of the Northern Region. The District is boarded to the North by Sawla/Tuna/Kalba District, to the west by the Republic of Ivory Coast, to the east by West Gonja District and to the south by Wenchi and Kintampo Districts of the Brong -Ahafo Region. The district stretches from Bodi in the north to Bamboi in the south.
Vice President John Dramani Mahama announced that government would renegotiate with the Cuban government for the posting of the country’s medical brigade to Ghana.
German company Clenergen Corporation is to enter a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to sign a 45 year sub lease agreement with the Bolewura and the Bole District Assembly for the cultivation of biomass energy crops. 
Mr Mark Woyongo, the Upper East Regional Minister, told journalists that they had a crucial role to play in bringing development to the three northern regions.
A Board Member of the Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF), Mr Richard Lassey has urged entrepreneurs and business persons to stop insisting on sole ownership and open up to partnership and cooperatives to enable them to access support to expand.
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has organised a Capacity Building Workshop for stakeholders of the National Action Programme (NAP) in Bolgatanga.
The Upper East Regional Minister has reiterated the need for key stakeholders in the tomato trade to engage with researchers to come out with varieties of tomato seed to suit the climatic conditions of the north so that it could be cultivated all year round.
