{"id":201535,"date":"2025-07-03T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-and-india-narendra-modis-visit-rekindles-historical-ties\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:43:54","slug":"ghana-and-india-narendra-modis-visit-rekindles-historical-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-and-india-narendra-modis-visit-rekindles-historical-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana and India &#8211; Narendra Modi&#8217;s Visit Rekindles Historical Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">Narendra Modi&#8217;s trip to Ghana in July 2025, part of a five-nation visit, is the first by an Indian prime minister in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyjagran.com\/world\/india-pm-narendra-modi-five-nation-tour-ghana-brazil-for-brics-summit-10249394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over 30 years<\/a>. The two countries&#8217; relationship goes back more than half a century to when India helped the newly independent Ghana set up its intelligence agencies. Ghana is also home to several large Indian-owned manufacturing and trading companies. International relations scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/nomadit.co.uk\/conference\/ecas2023\/paper\/70068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pius Siakwah<\/a> unpacks the context of the visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><strong>What is the background to Ghana and India&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi&#8217;s trip to Ghana in July 2025, part of a five-nation visit, is the first by an Indian prime minister in over 30 years. The two countries&#8217; relationship goes back more than half a century to when India helped the newly independent Ghana set up its intelligence agencies. Ghana is also home to several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,10325,7447,51787,28468,257,17126,254,7051,6250],"class_list":["post-201535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-historical","tag-india","tag-modis","tag-narendra","tag-news","tag-rekindles","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}