President John Dramani Mahama, on behalf of the state and people of Ghana, has made a donation of humanitarian items to Jamaica, Sudan, and Cuba.
Announcing the donation during a brief ceremony at the Jubilee House on Friday, November 7, 2025, President Mahama described the gesture as symbolic of Ghana’s goodwill towards brotherly nations in challenging times.
“Sudan is actually becoming the forgotten war because of Ukraine and Gaza. It looks like the world’s attention has shifted from there. Some of the atrocities, the genocide, and the humanitarian suffering that is taking place in Sudan are not something that belongs to the 21st century,” the president said.
The relief items include bags of Ghana rice, sugar, medicines, mattresses, gari mix, t-shirts, mobile toilets, chocolates, water tanks, and assorted Ghanaian-made products.
Jamaica is grappling with a severe humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Melissa’s devastating landfall in late October 2025, which caused widespread flooding, landslides, and infrastructure collapse, displacing thousands and disrupting water and communications for hundreds of thousands, while Sudan faces the world’s largest ongoing humanitarian emergency after over two years of civil war, with more than 24 million people suffering acute food insecurity, famine, mass displacement of 12 million, and widespread human rights abuses amid critically underfunded aid efforts.
Similarly, Cuba contends with an acute compounded crisis exacerbated by Hurricane Melissa’s destruction of homes, crops, and power grids in the east, leaving over three million without water or electricity, intensified by a persistent hunger epidemic affecting millions and recent earthquakes and viral outbreaks straining already fragile health and economic systems.