{"id":39003,"date":"2026-06-02T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/39003\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:41:06","slug":"somali-foreign-minister-attends-korea-africa-meeting-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/39003\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali foreign minister attends Korea-Africa meeting in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hol.jpg\" alt=\"HOL Logo\" class=\"source-logo-inline\"\/><br \/>Tuesday June 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780404220713023608_1386203316865777_7218929440565116954_n.jpg\" alt=\"Somali foreign minister attends Korea-Africa meeting in Seoul\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seoul, South Korea (HOL) \u2014 Somali Foreign Minister Abdisalam Ali joined African foreign ministers on Monday in a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at Cheong Wa Dae, as Seoul moved to deepen ties with African countries.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was held as part of the Korea-Africa Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting, which brought together representatives from 50 African countries and four regional organizations, including the African Union and the African Development Bank.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea hosted the gathering under the theme \u201cPartnership for Joint Responses to Global Challenges,\u201d with talks focused on trade, investment, technology, supply chains, climate change, public health, peacebuilding and sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean officials said the meeting was aimed at expanding cooperation with Africa at a time of global supply chain disruptions and geopolitical uncertainty. President Lee told African ministers and senior officials that South Korea hopes to strengthen cooperation with the continent, including through regular summits with African leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The Korea-Africa Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting was held in Seoul on June 1, bringing together foreign ministers and representatives from 50 African countries.<\/p>\n<p>For Somalia, the meeting offered an opportunity to strengthen diplomatic and economic engagement with South Korea, particularly in areas such as development, investment, technology and institutional cooperation, according to the Somali foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions also reflected Seoul\u2019s broader effort to build partnerships with African countries in critical minerals, trade and supply chains as global economic and security pressures intensify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday June 2, 2026 Seoul, South Korea (HOL) \u2014 Somali Foreign Minister Abdisalam Ali joined African foreign ministers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23766,23765,4278,31,23767,146,14986,7699,112,23764,33],"class_list":["post-39003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-attends","tag-foreign","tag-in","tag-korea","tag-koreaafrica","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-meeting","tag-minister","tag-seoul","tag-somali","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}