{"id":198547,"date":"2025-05-21T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-digital-press-briefing-senior-bureau-official-troy-fitrells-commercial-diplomacy-trip-to-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:00:57","slug":"africa-digital-press-briefing-senior-bureau-official-troy-fitrells-commercial-diplomacy-trip-to-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-digital-press-briefing-senior-bureau-official-troy-fitrells-commercial-diplomacy-trip-to-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Digital Press Briefing: Senior Bureau Official Troy Fitrell&#8217;s Commercial Diplomacy Trip to West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"98\"><strong>MODERATOR:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good afternoon to everyone from the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Africa Regional Media Hub. \u00a0I welcome our participants logging in from across the continent and thank all of you for joining us. \u00a0Today, we are very pleased to be joined by the Senior Bureau Official for the Department of State\u2019s Bureau of African Affairs, Ambassador Troy Fitrell.\u00a0 Ambassador Fitrell will review his commercial diplomacy trip to West Africa and outline the U.S. State Department\u2019s new commercial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505210002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 Good afternoon to everyone from the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Africa Regional Media Hub. \u00a0I welcome our participants logging in from across the continent and thank all of you for joining us. \u00a0Today, we are very pleased to be joined by the Senior Bureau Official for the Department of State\u2019s Bureau of African Affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670327:bf1e0b9b58e9e8fb7871a7734ba38118:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6453,8736,8574,6183,6555,9633,10059,51408,1218,257,5092,6010,6468,254,7199,32447,4375],"class_list":["post-198547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-briefing","tag-bureau","tag-commercial","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-digital","tag-diplomacy","tag-fitrells","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-official","tag-press","tag-senior","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trip","tag-troy","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670327:bf1e0b9b58e9e8fb7871a7734ba38118:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}