Chinese Foreign Minister Qin GANG to pay official visit to Ethiopia next week

Addis Ababa, January 8, 2022 (FBC) – Chinese Foreign Minister Qin GANG will pay an official visit to Ethiopia next week.

The Chinese Foreign Minister will have bilateral discussion with high level Ethiopian government officials. The Minister will also have discussions with African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on various issues.

Qin GANG is also expected to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony of the Africa CDC Headquarters project site in the African Village, Addis Ababa.

When completed the building will include an emergency operation center, a data center, laboratory, resource center, briefing rooms, training center, conference center, offices, and expatriate apartments, all to be constructed, furnished and equipped by the Government of China.

The headquarters building is expected to become one of the best-equipped centers for disease control in Africa, allowing Africa CDC to play its role as the technical institution coordinating disease prevention, surveillance and control in the continent in partnership with the national public health institutes and ministries of health of Member States.