The European Union provided 10 million euros to the Ghanaian government as part of a food security assistance package on Friday, October 14, 2022.

Along with ensuring food security, the money will be utilized to try and lessen how Ghanaian agriculture will be affected by Russia's war in Ukraine.

The EU Office in Ghana underlined in a tweet that the funds will also "strengthen ongoing programming as well as EU's planned support to the agriculture sector in Ghana."

The full tweet read: “#TeamEurope announces €10 million support for #FoodSecurity and to help #mitigate the impact on agriculture in Ghana of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine. Also to strengthen ongoing programme as well EU's upcoming support to the agriculture sector in Ghana.”

The tweet was accompanied by two photos of the EU representative handing over a cheque titled: “EU SUPPORT TO FOOD SECURITY IN GHANA,” to the Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare.

Government has partly blamed the Russia-Ukraine war and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for the economic headwinds, insisting that all was being done to stem the tide.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund, IMF, advanced different sums of money to the government to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic.

On the diplomatic front, Ghana has been one of the vocal African countries calling on Russia to stop its aggression on Ukraine. Ghana also voted YES in a UN resolution this week, condemning Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territories.

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister picked Accra as one of three stops on his African tour that was truncated after Russian bombardments.