{"id":1142869,"date":"2026-01-08T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/national\/chinese-fm-to-visit-four-african-nations-attend-ceremony-at-au-headquarters\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:24:03","slug":"chinese-fm-to-visit-four-african-nations-attend-ceremony-at-au-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/chinese-fm-to-visit-four-african-nations-attend-ceremony-at-au-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese FM to visit four African nations, attend ceremony at AU headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Jan 8 (BRNN\/APP): Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Lesotho upon invitation from Jan. 7 to 12, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will attend the launching ceremony of the China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges at the African Union (AU) headquarters, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and Africa. Wang&#8217;s visit to the four African nations and his attendance at the launching ceremony of the China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges serve to continue the fine tradition of China&#8217;s foreign minister choosing Africa for the first overseas visit each year over the past 36 years, Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the ministry, said at a press briefing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Lesotho are all China&#8217;s strategic partners, and the purpose of Wang&#8217;s visit is to deepen political mutual trust with all parties, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is also aimed at promoting the implementation of the outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, strengthening mutual learning between China and Africa as two major civilizations, and injecting new impetus into building an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era, Mao said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese FM to visit four African nations, attend ceremony at AU headquarters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2434,1071,2435],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1142869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","tag-african-nations","tag-ceremony","tag-chinese-fm-wang-yi","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142869"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1142869"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1142869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}