{"id":43385,"date":"2020-01-17T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/minister-gould-concludes-visit-to-republic-of-congo-and-democratic-republic-of-congo\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:15:08","slug":"minister-gould-concludes-visit-to-republic-of-congo-and-democratic-republic-of-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/minister-gould-concludes-visit-to-republic-of-congo-and-democratic-republic-of-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Gould concludes visit to Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/f909a89ec104d91.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/f909a89ec104d91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada values its long-standing partnerships in Africa and remains committed to working with African partners to build a more prosperous, sustainable and peaceful world.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Honourable Karina Gould, Minister of International Development, today concluded a four-day visit to the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo during which she met with government officials, partners and civil society to discuss collaboration on humanitarian, health, education, economic security, climate change and regional security issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While in the Republic of Congo, the Minister announced Canadian assistance\u00a0to provide support to families affected by the floods that have devastated areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Minister Gould announced Canada\u2019s continued support to fight Ebola and respond to humanitarian needs. Canada\u2019s contribution for Ebola will help control the epidemic and strengthen the health care system in the conflict-affected areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting gender equality and peace and security was central to the Minister\u2019s visit to the region. Minister Gould met with women\u2019s rights activists and survivors of gender-based violence who, because of Canada\u2019s assistance, are now receiving health services, psychosocial support, training and access to justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the last day of her visit, the Minister met with Canadian Armed Forces personnel deployed to the UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo to discuss Canada\u2019s peacekeeping role in the region.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Global Affairs Canada.<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/minister-gould-concludes-visit-to-republic-of-congo-and-democratic-republic-of-congo?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Democratic Republic of Congo\" href=\"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Canada values its long-standing partnerships in Africa and remains committed to working with African partners to build a more prosperous, sustainable and peaceful world. The Honourable Karina Gould, Minister of International Development, today concluded a four-day visit to the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo during which she met with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[258,256,4696,6159,4554,6404,281,4691,450,279,280,8414,5941,257,5935,254,6250],"class_list":["post-43385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central-africa","tag-concludes","tag-congo","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-drc-news","tag-gould","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43385","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}