Voice of America
Date: April 17, 2018
By: Anita Powell
JOHANNESBURG — Taiwan’s new president makes her first trip to Africa this week to
FILE – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen speaks after inspecting navy exercises at Suao naval station, in Yilan County, northeast of Taiwan, April 13, 2018.
visit one of the island’s two remaining allies on the continent. Support for Taiwan has diminished in Africa over the past decade, as billions of dollars in Chinese investment have flowed into the continent.
But the tiny African kingdom of Swaziland says it welcomes Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, as she makes her first visit to the landlocked kingdom that is one of Taiwan’s oldest allies.
Jennifer Neves, Swaziland’s undersecretary for international cooperation in the foreign ministry, spoke to VOA on Tuesday as she headed to the airport to receive Tsai for the four-day visit.
Taiwan, she said, has long funded a range of agricultural, industrial and vocational programs in Swaziland. [FULL STORY]
