{"id":35064,"date":"2026-05-21T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35064"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:06:26","slug":"india-africa-union-postpone-new-delhi-summit-amid-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/india-africa-union-postpone-new-delhi-summit-amid-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Africa Union postpone New Delhi summit amid Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>India and the African Union (AU) have decided to postpone \u200bthe India-Africa Forum Summit scheduled to be \u200cheld next week in New Delhi, due to the &#8220;emerging public health situation&#8221; in Africa, India&#8217;s foreign ministry said \u200bon Thursday, in an apparent reference to \u200bthe Ebola outbreak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Get the latest news from India and how it matters to the world with the Reuters India File newsletter. Sign up here.<\/div>\n<div>The fourth India and Africa \u2060Forum Summit was scheduled to take place \u200bin New Delhi from May 28 to May \u200b31.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The summit of ministers and leaders aimed to deepen cooperation on trade, investment, innovation, development, digital technology, sustainability and \u200bglobal governance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After discussing the &#8220;evolving health situation in parts \u200bof Africa&#8221;, India and the AU agreed that it would \u200cbe &#8220;advisable&#8221; \u2060to hold the summit at a later date, the foreign ministry said in a statement. It did not elaborate on the health concerns.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Democratic \u200bRepublic of \u200bCongo has \u2060been facing an outbreak of a rare Ebolastrain for which there is no \u200bvaccine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The World Health Organization said on \u200bWednesday that 600 \u2060suspected cases and 139 suspected deaths have been recorded so far in the outbreak that started \u2060two \u200bmonths ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Indian Foreign Ministry \u200bsaid new dates for the summit will be finalised in due \u200bcourse.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34676,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35064","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Focus on Ebola outbreak","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35064","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\/35064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35065,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35064\/revisions\/35065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}