{"id":83090,"date":"2016-11-30T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-african-union-receives-additional-financial-support-from-china-for-the-au-mission-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:23:01","slug":"the-african-union-receives-additional-financial-support-from-china-for-the-au-mission-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-african-union-receives-additional-financial-support-from-china-for-the-au-mission-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"The African Union receives Additional Financial Support From China for the AU Mission in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.african-union.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-african-union-receives-additional-financial-support-from-china-for-the-au-mission-in-somalia?lang=en\">The African Union receives Additional Financial Support From China for the AU Mission in Somalia<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div>On November 28, the Commissioner for Peace and Security,&nbsp;Ambassador Smail Chergui, on behalf of the Chairperson of the AU Commission, signed with&nbsp;the Ambassador of the Chinese Mission to the AU a hand over certificate for the provision of&nbsp;USD1.2 million for support to the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). It is to be recalled that&nbsp;China donated the same amount in 2015, in addition to several other donations in kind for&nbsp;the AU troops in Somalia. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his remarks, the Chinese Ambassador reiterated China&rsquo;s commitment to continue to&nbsp;support the AU in promoting peace and stability in the continent as well as to enhanced&nbsp;relationship and cooperation between China and the AU. The Commissioner for Peace and&nbsp;Security expressed his gratitude to China and indicated that the donation comes at a critical&nbsp;moment where AMISOM needs additional support for its engagement in Somalia. He also&nbsp;informed that the donation is earmarked for future operations and reiterated the need for&nbsp;other partners to strengthen and coordinate their support to AMISOM and the Somali&nbsp;national security forces. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO on behalf of African Union Commission (AUC).<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/8c66a869a561f61\/200\/70\" alt=\"African Union Commission (AUC)\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.african-union.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-african-union-receives-additional-financial-support-from-china-for-the-au-mission-in-somalia?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Union receives Additional Financial Support From China for the AU Mission in Somalia: On November 28, the Commissioner for Peace and Security,&nbsp;Ambassador Smail Chergui, on behalf of the Chairperson of the AU Commission, signed with&nbsp;the Ambassador of the Chinese Mission to the AU a hand over certificate for the provision of&nbsp;USD1.2 million for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4952,3050,577,1917,3445,10008,4401,1233,4974,6681],"class_list":{"0":"post-83090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-additional","8":"tag-african","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-financial","11":"tag-from","12":"tag-mission","13":"tag-receives","14":"tag-somalia","15":"tag-support","16":"tag-union","17":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}