{"id":2031,"date":"2018-10-22T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:40:36","slug":"twice-as-many-african-presidents-made-it-to-chinas-africa-summit-than-to-the-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"Twice as many African presidents made it to China\u2019s Africa summit than to the UN general assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_92842 africa\">As the current chairperson of the African Union, Rwandan president Paul Kagame was among the first five leaders to address the just-concluded 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Kagame\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gadebate.un.org\/sites\/default\/files\/gastatements\/73\/rw_en.pdf\">extolled<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cdeepening\u201d partnership between Africa and the global body, noting, \u201cthe dividend of a more focused and functional Africa benefits everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"_92842 africa\">But even as he emphasized this mutual cooperation, it was hard not to notice the absence of major African leaders at the world\u2019s biggest political summit. A Quartz analysis of the African principals who spoke at the general debate using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gadebate.un.org\/en\">the country list<\/a>\u00a0published by the UN shows fewer African presidents attended the general assembly in New York than were at the third summit of the Forum on China\u2013Africa Cooperation that took place in Beijing two weeks earlier in September. The index of leaders who attended FOCAC was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focac.org\/eng\/\">gathered from<\/a>\u00a0the forum\u2019s official English website. By Quartz\u2019s count 51 African leaders were in Beijing compared with 27 in New York.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1414004\/more-african-presidents-went-to-chinas-africa-forum-than-un-general-assembly\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1414004\/more-african-presidents-went-to-chinas-africa-forum-than-un-general-assembly\/\">QUARTZ<\/a><\/strong> by\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/author\/adahirqz\/\">Abdi Latif Dahir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the current chairperson of the African Union, Rwandan president Paul Kagame was among the first five leaders to address the just-concluded 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Kagame\u00a0extolled\u00a0the \u201cdeepening\u201d partnership between Africa and the global body, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2031\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,316,89,617,552],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-africa","tag-china","tag-cooperation","tag-summit","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}