{"id":19895,"date":"2026-01-13T02:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19895\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:31:25","slug":"wang-yi-cites-severe-risks-after-somalia-dropped-from-africa-itinerary-at-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19895\/","title":{"rendered":"Wang Yi cites \u2018severe risks\u2019 after Somalia dropped from Africa itinerary at last minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Mogadishu had cleared the roads for a historic visit, yet on Friday Chinese Foreign Minister <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3339490\/china-urges-tanzania-back-multilateralism-vows-always-stand-together-africa?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wang Yi travelled to Tanzania<\/a> instead of Somalia as planned.It would have been the first high-level Chinese mission to Mogadishu in four decades. The last-minute decision not to include the capital on Wang\u2019s itinerary came as Somalia seeks shows of diplomatic support after <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/africa\/article\/3337854\/israel-becomes-first-country-formally-recognise-somaliland-independent-state?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel recognised the breakaway region of Somaliland<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A source at the presidential palace told local media the visit was postponed \u201cdue to technical issues\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At a regular Chinese foreign ministry press briefing on Monday afternoon, a spokesperson said Wang had \u201cmade adjustments to his itinerary regarding the relevant visit after friendly consultations between the foreign affairs authorities of China and Somalia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767942668_8_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">16:09<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">How China is reshaping its economic ties with Africa<\/p>\n<p>How China is reshaping its economic ties with Africa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a subsequent video call from Wang to his staff in Mogadishu on Sunday, he said the Chinese mission faced the \u201cmost complex security situation\u201d and the \u201cmost challenging working and living conditions\u201d, according to a foreign ministry readout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Mogadishu had cleared the roads for a historic visit, yet on Friday Chinese Foreign Minister Wang&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,2096,83,235,262,2095,1600,96,1033,2094,310,1073,592,929],"class_list":{"0":"post-19895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-south-china-morning-post","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895","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=19895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}