Nairobi, April 23 -- Ghanaian police have arrested a woman accused of attempting to traffic a minor from Ghana to Kenya.

The Ghana Police Service in a statement said the 36-year-old Ghanaian woman was intercepted at Accra International Airport, and the nine-year-old girl rescued before she could be moved across borders, in what is believed to be part of a wider human trafficking network.

In a statement issued by the Police Public Affairs Unit, investigators said Regina Mamle Tawiah was tracked to the airport following a report from the girl's father, who alerted authorities on Sunday, April 19, after his daughter failed to return home from Agormanya Zongo in the Odumase-Krobo District.

Police said officers from the district, working wi...