{"id":87870,"date":"2018-01-10T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2dc7b11d185d119103633b8424898e5a"},"modified":"2018-01-10T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:33:00","slug":"news-story-harriett-baldwin-mp-appointed-minister-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87870","title":{"rendered":"News story: Harriett Baldwin MP appointed Minister for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Speaking following her appointment, Harriett Baldwin said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am honoured to have been appointed and look forward to representing Global Britain with African nations to tackle a range of opportunities and challenges in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The UK has longstanding and important relationships, and I will work for an even stronger partnership with African nations, finding new ways to fight poverty, minimise threats and build mutual prosperity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Eighteen African countries are part of the Commonwealth, so a priority for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/commonwealth-heads-of-government-meeting-2018\">Commonwealth Summit<\/a> will be looking at how we meet the ambitions of the next generation, including creating the jobs and economic growth so crucial for a modern Africa.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriett Baldwin MP has been appointed as Minister for Africa for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87875,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87870\/revisions\/87875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}