{"id":118051,"date":"2021-04-10T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118051"},"modified":"2021-04-10T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T03:30:11","slug":"118051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118051","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Prime Minister Sanchez on charm offensive in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Spain-s-Prime-Minister-Sanchez-on-charm-offensive-in-Africa-1228123?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/916\/91637846.295.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez (L) and Angola President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o (R) pose for a photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez (L) and Angola President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o (R) <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LUANDA, April 10 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Spain&#8217;s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wrapped up business in Angola with the signing of agreements on fishing, agriculture and industry as bilateral cooperations between the countries intensify.<br><br>It comes as Spain&#8217;s economy has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic and seeks new partnerships in Africa.<br><br>For its part, Angola is, in turn, seeking new markets to diversify its economy away from oil.<br><br>&#8220;Angola is also an important regional actor, which I have also had the opportunity to acknowledge to President Louren\u00e7o in the bilateral conversation we have had,&#8221; said Sanchez in the capital Luanda.<br><br>&#8220;Its commitment to peace and stability are important assets that have given Angola weight, respect and influence in achieving peaceful, dialogue-based solutions to the conflicts in the region.<br><br>&#8220;We welcomed President Louren\u00e7o&#8217;s commitment to mediation and the search for dialogue-based solutions to the conflicts in the three major regions of sub-Saharan Africa: the Gulf of Guinea, the Great Lakes and Southern Africa.&#8221;<br><br>Cooperation between the countries has intensified in the business sector in recent years with the increase of Spanish companies in Angola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have here a trade of millions of consumers from across the continent who can absorb the goods that are produced here in Angola as a result of the partnership between our two states, the partnership between Spanish and Angolan businesspeople,&#8221; said Angola&#8217;s President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanchez is heading to Senegal where he will also participate in a business forum followed by a meeting with President Macky Sall and the respective diplomatic corps. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez (L) and Angola President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o (R) LUANDA, April 10 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Spain&#8217;s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wrapped up business in Angola with the signing of agreements on fishing, agriculture and industry as bilateral cooperations between the countries intensify. It comes as Spain&#8217;s economy has been battered by the coronavirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}