{"id":7898,"date":"2013-05-19T04:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/japan-to-provide-us-2bn-to-africa-resources\/"},"modified":"2013-05-19T04:58:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:58:21","slug":"japan-to-provide-us-2bn-to-africa-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/japan-to-provide-us-2bn-to-africa-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to Provide US$2Bn to Africa Resources Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Japan will provide $2 billion worth of financial support over five years to back Japanese firms&#8217; resources development projects in Africa, media reported on Saturday.}}<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi made the announcement at the Africa-Japan Ministerial Meeting for Resources Development held in Tokyo on Saturday, Japanese news agencies Kyodo and Jiji said.<\/p>\n<p>The financial support is to be channeled through state-run Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC), reports said.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Japanese firms have been participating in resources projects in Africa, including Mitsui &#038; Co&#8217;s (8031.T) LNG project in Mozambique and Nippon Steel &#038; Sumitomo Metal Corp&#8217;s (5401.T) coking coal project also in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Japan will provide $2 billion worth of financial support over five years to back Japanese firms&#8217; resources development projects in Africa, media reported on Saturday.}} Japan&#8217;s Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi made the announcement at the Africa-Japan Ministerial Meeting for Resources Development held in Tokyo on Saturday, Japanese news agencies Kyodo and Jiji said. The financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}