{"id":434152,"date":"2025-01-05T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=434152"},"modified":"2025-01-05T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T07:52:25","slug":"the-africa-first-tradition-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/the-africa-first-tradition-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"THE AFRICA FIRST TRADITION CONTINUES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Namibia, the Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Nigeria from January 5-11, marking the 35th consecutive year that a Chinese foreign minister&#8217;s first overseas trip is to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson Chinese foreign affairs ministry, Mao Ning, the tradition of visiting Africa first at the beginning of every year highlights part of China&#8217;s commitment to its Africa relations.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Wang visited Tunisia, Togo, and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia, the Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Nigeria are all China&#8217;s friendly cooperation partners.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of Foreign Minister Wang Yi&#8217;s upcoming visit is to implement the outcomes of the FOCAC Beijing Summit and deepen practical cooperation across the board for sustained and substantive growth of China-Africa relations, the spokesperson noted.<\/p>\n<p>By Lawal Sale<\/p>\n<p>Lawal Sale is Abuja based Global Affairs Analyst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Namibia, the Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Nigeria from January 5-11, marking the 35th consecutive year that a Chinese foreign minister&#8217;s first overseas trip is to Africa. According to the spokesperson Chinese foreign affairs ministry, Mao Ning, the tradition of visiting Africa first at the beginning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":434153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-434152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434154,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434152\/revisions\/434154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}