{"id":2141,"date":"2018-11-10T22:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2018-11-13T06:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T06:23:22","slug":"chinese-ambassador-promises-cooperation-during-meeting-with-somalias-minister-of-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2018\/11\/10\/chinese-ambassador-promises-cooperation-during-meeting-with-somalias-minister-of-fisheries\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ambassador promises cooperation during meeting with Somalia\u2019s minister of fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU (SOHA) &#8211;<\/strong> Somalia\u2019s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Resources Abdullahi Bidhan Warsame recently met with Chinese Ambassador Qin Jian to discuss deepening the two countries\u2019 fisheries connections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Warsame said he would be interested receiving Chinese fisheries training and investments in infrastructure such as cold-chain, fish ports, processing facilities, and preparing products for export in exchange for allowing China greater access to its fisheries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He described Somalia\u2019s fishery resources are \u201cabundant\u201d and \u201cfull of great potential,\u201d according to a transcript of the conversation from the Chinese foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qin, in turn, said China wanted to help Somalia \u201cindependently develop\u201d its resources and to \u201crebuild in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facing the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, Somalia has been wracked by decades of conflict and instability. Both USAID and European Union donors have sought to stimulate the Somali fishery sector as a source of economic growth and food security for the country. But Somali fishermen have claimed that they\u2019re being overwhelmed by large foreign vessels fishing illegally in the country\u2019s exclusive economic zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: HOL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU (SOHA) &#8211; Somalia\u2019s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Resources Abdullahi Bidhan Warsame recently met with Chinese Ambassador Qin Jian to discuss deepening the two countries\u2019 fisheries connections. Warsame said he would be interested receiving Chinese fisheries training and investments in infrastructure such as cold-chain, fish ports, processing facilities, and preparing products for export in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}