On her first day in office, Ghana’s new vice president, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, hosted an Israeli delegation led by Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone Roey Gilad and Israeli Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Sharren Haskel. In an 8 January X post, Opoku-Agyemang expressed a willingness to collaborate with Israel and align priorities on sectors like food security.
Support for Palestine exists in Ghana amidst Israel’s bombardment and siege of Gaza that k*lled an estimated 186,000 civilians as of early July, according to the Lancet medical journal. Meanwhile, Gilad reportedly lamented the Ghanaian government’s lack of support, calling it disproportionate to ordinary Ghanaians’ alleged enthusiasm for the settler-colonial state.
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Sources:
https://x.com/NJOAgyemang/status/1877097494708134059/photo/2
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
https://www.instagram.com/p/DB8wnZ2t_Og
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/07/sudan-genocide-rsf-hemedti
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/17/israel-recognises-western-sahara-as-part-of-morocco