{"id":47212,"date":"2026-10-04T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47212"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:28:07","slug":"sa-minister-egypt-counterpart-hold-talks-on-economic-co-operation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-egypt-counterpart-hold-talks-on-economic-co-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Minister, Egypt counterpart hold talks on economic co-operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) International Relations Minister, Ronald Lamola, has held talks in New Alamein City with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, focusing on economic co-operation. They met on the margins of the African Forum in Egypt.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA President Cyril Ramaphosa is representing SA at the 8th African Union (AU) Mid-Year Co-ordination Meeting as the chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The AU leaders will exchange views on the status of continental integration.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lamola and his Egyptian counterpart Abdelatty have identified opportunities to advance economic relations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They also looked at ways to push for the promotion of the African agenda, and they committed to working together on many fronts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The ministers also signed the agreement to establish a Bi-National Commission (BNC) between SA and Egypt.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The signing of the Bi-National Commission marks the strategic elevation of the bilateral relationship between the two countries. The BNC will be co-chaired at the level of Deputy President and Prime Minister.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46515,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47212","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The AU leaders will exchange views on the status of continental integration.","published_date":"","news_description":"The AU leaders will exchange views on the status of continental integration.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47212","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\/47212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47213,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47212\/revisions\/47213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}