An Israel Air Force plane carrying an 18-person Home Front Command team has been dispatched to Ghana in the aftermath of a shopping mall collapse in the capital that killed three and left dozens injured. Ghanan President John Dramani Mahama accepted the Israeli offer, signaling a further warming of ties that were renewed last year with the opening of an Israeli embassy in Accra. The Israeli team includes disaster management experts, medical personnel, and engineers, and it reinforces a separate team of doctors and medical technicians dispatched by Israel’s Magen David Adom to set up a field hospital. Israel’s status as a global leader in disaster response is a source of pride for the country.

[Photo: Matanya / Wikimedia]