{"id":19477,"date":"2026-01-12T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19477\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:16:12","slug":"ethiopia-china-deepen-cooperation-in-infrastructure-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19477\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, China Deepen Cooperation in Infrastructure, Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/wjbzhd\/202601\/t20260109_11809661.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">have taken steps<\/a> toward strengthening bilateral cooperation, with <a href=\"https:\/\/energycapitalpower.com\/?s=Ethiopia&amp;ct_post_type=post%3Apage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethiopia<\/a>\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali meeting with China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi this week. Both sides emphasized expanding cooperation in infrastructure, green industry and the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting in Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Abiy highlighted the country\u2019s commitment to maintaining close high-level exchanges and deepening practical cooperation across key sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Yi stressed advancing high-quality Belt and Road projects in Africa, aligning development strategies, and providing a favorable environment for Chinese investment.<\/p>\n<p>Both leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation in traditional areas, including trade, transportation and energy, as well as emerging sectors such as e-commerce, AI and green energy.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Wang Yi is undertaking a six-day tour of Africa, with stops in Somalia, Tanzania and Lesotho, aimed at promoting regional development and China-Africa partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and China have taken steps toward strengthening bilateral cooperation, with Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[65],"class_list":{"0":"post-19477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopia","8":"tag-ethiopia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}