{"id":370881,"date":"2024-07-26T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=370881"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:24:00","slug":"mauritania-heads-african-union-delegation-to-g20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mauritania-heads-african-union-delegation-to-g20\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritania heads African Union delegation to G20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Mauritania is present at G20 minister-level meetings being held this week in Rio after taking over the rotating chair of the African Union, of which the Arab country is a member, state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMI<\/a> reported. The G20 meetings \u2013 focused on economic and social issues \u2013 started on Monday (22) and end on Friday (26).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/G20-uniao-africana-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mauritania\u2019s officials represent the African Union at G20 meetings\" class=\"wp-image-370874\" style=\"width:278px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/G20-uniao-africana-1.jpg 454w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/G20-uniao-africana-1-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/G20-uniao-africana-1-450x283.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mauritania\u2019s officials represent the African Union at G20 meetings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh, the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, and Mohamed Lemine Dhehbi, the Governor of the Central Bank of Mauritania, participated in the meetings of finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20, representing the African Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh AI- Ghazouani is the current chair of the African Union. The chairperson of the African Union is the head of the African Union elected by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government for a one-year term. President Azali Assoumani of the Union of Comoros handed over his chairmanship to Ghazouani last February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mauritania is participating in the Rio de Janeiro\u2019s summit as head of the African Union delegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sessions of the G20 meetings in Brazil discuss several topics, including financial inclusion, the global tax ecosystem, the need for resource mobilization and financing for climate and sustainable development goals, and the reform of multilateral development banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mauritania joins f<strong>ight against hunger<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights of the G20 meetings included the pre-launch of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, spearheaded by President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, which was approved by acclamation in Rio, and the consensus that it\u2019s necessary to deepen global discussions on taxing the world\u2019s super-rich, another major issued put on the table by Brazil as G20\u2019s temporary chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<br><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/global-alliance-against-hunger-approved-at-g20\/\">Global Alliance Against Hunger approved at G20<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-370872\">G20 Brazil<\/div><div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-370874\">AIM<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh AI-Ghazouani as the rotating chair of the African Union, the country is heading the bloc\u2019s delegation in the G20 meetings in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":370872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[9534,50323,50324,50325,27568],"class_list":{"0":"post-370881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-brazil-en","9":"tag-mauritania-2","10":"tag-mauritania-at-g20","11":"tag-mohamed-ould-cheikh-ai-ghazouani-2","12":"tag-rio-de-janeiro-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"With Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh AI-Ghazouani as the rotating chair of the African Union, the country is heading the bloc\u2019s delegation in the G20 meetings in Rio de Janeiro.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}