OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to Africa as her government assembles a long-delayed plan on how to engage with the continent. Joly is heading to Ivory Coast today before visiting South Africa for two days starting Wednesday.
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to Africa as her government assembles a long-delayed plan on how to engage with the continent.Her office says the trip to Ivory Coast is aimed at exploring shared counterterrorism priorities and affirming Canada's ties with both English- and French-speaking countries.
The Liberals have been assembling what they first called an Africa strategy for nearly three years, but they downgraded the project last year to call it a framework. In April, a senior bureaucrat said there was no longer a noun being used to describe the plan, which as of this week Ottawa now calls its"approach" to the continent.
Africa is bucking a global trend of demographic decline, with a booming young population and a series of trade deals and infrastructure projects that economists expect will lead to economic booms. Groups like the One Campaign and Cuso International have testified that Canada is losing relevance through continued disengagement, and thus ceding ground to Russia and China.
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