{"id":50885,"date":"2026-11-13T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T10:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50885"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T10:19:33","slug":"international-relations-minister-leads-sa-delegation-at-au-funding-meeting-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/international-relations-minister-leads-sa-delegation-at-au-funding-meeting-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"International Relations Minister leads SA delegation at AU funding meeting in Ghana\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola is in Ghana, leading South Africa&#8217;s (SA) delegation at an African Union (AU) meeting on the bloc&#8217;s funding.<\/p>\n<div>Ministers are discussing ways to reduce the AU&#8217;s reliance on external donors and strengthen its financial independence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ministerial Spokesperson, Phindile Kunene says the meeting is very \u00a0important for SA\u00a0and the continent.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ..<\/p>\n<p>Lamola is leading the SA delegation at the extraordinary session of the AU Executive Council taking place today in Ghana.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The session&#8217;s focus is on financing the AU and its priorities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This is urgent, as our continent has seen a sharp decline in extending our funding in recent years.\u00a0 A reality that has deprived Africa&#8217;s development and peace efforts of resources at a time when they are needed most.\u00a0 Decision brings together Ministers of Foreign affairs and Finance.\u00a0 Along with Africa&#8217;s development and multilateral finance institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46515,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-50885","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Lamola in Ghana, leading SA delegation at AU meeting","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"GCIS"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50885","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50887,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50885\/revisions\/50887"}],"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=50885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}