{"id":23820,"date":"2026-02-16T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/italy-offers-african-nations-debt-relief-during-extreme-climate-events\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:34","slug":"italy-offers-african-nations-debt-relief-during-extreme-climate-events","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/italy-offers-african-nations-debt-relief-during-extreme-climate-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy offers African nations debt relief during extreme climate events \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced that Italy is giving African countries the option to suspend debt repayments during extreme climate events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meloni made the remarks at the second Italy\u2011Africa summit, which ran alongside the 39th African Union Summit, the continent\u2019s highest decision\u2011making forum, held this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is aimed at easing financial pressures on African nations facing increasingly frequent climate-related disasters, including floods, droughts and storms, which have strained public resources and development budgets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23821,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-23820","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced that Italy is giving African countries the option to suspend debt repayments","published_date":"2026-02-16 13:11:19","news_description":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced that Italy is giving African countries the option to suspend debt repayments","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26672,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23820\/revisions\/26672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}