{"id":33212,"date":"2024-06-21T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/06\/21\/botswanas-president-masisi-slams-wrong-g7-decision-on-diamond-certification\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:03:43","slug":"botswanas-president-masisi-slams-wrong-g7-decision-on-diamond-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/06\/21\/botswanas-president-masisi-slams-wrong-g7-decision-on-diamond-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&rsquo;s President Masisi slams &lsquo;wrong&rsquo; G7 decision on diamond certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>FRANCE 24 spoke to Botswana&rsquo;s President Mokgweetsi Masisi on the sidelines of a global\u00a0summit in Paris, during which $1 billion were pledged to increase the production of vaccines in Africa. Masisi discussed the importance of Africa producing its own vaccines and the need for considerable funding. He also\u00a0reacted to the G7&rsquo;s decision that all diamonds sold in G7 countries now need to be certified in Antwerp, Belgium, as part of sanctions on Russia. Masisi called this \u00ab\u00a0a wrong decision\u00a0\u00bb that&rsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0taking away our capacity to be in control\u00a0\u00bb. He added: \u00ab\u00a0We are the producer countries. Why would we not be trusted?\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0Botswana is the world&rsquo;s top diamond producer by value.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE 24 spoke to Botswana&rsquo;s President Mokgweetsi Masisi on the sidelines of a global\u00a0summit in Paris, during which $1 billion were pledged to increase the production of vaccines in Africa. Masisi discussed the importance of Africa producing its own vaccines and the need for considerable funding. He also\u00a0reacted to the G7&rsquo;s decision that all diamonds &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-33212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}