{"id":193855,"date":"2025-12-20T20:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:04:23","slug":"uk-pivots-from-aid-to-investment-in-new-africa-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193855\/","title":{"rendered":"UK pivots from aid to investment in new Africa strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        The strategy comes after Britain reduced its aid budget by 40 percent this year, a move that has drawn scrutiny but which officials argue frees up resources to support longer-term growth through investment.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Chapman said the approach is designed to unlock private finance for sectors that African governments have identified as priorities, including infrastructure, energy, and industrial development.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        \u201cThe whole point of this is to scale up private capital for Africa\u2019s development priorities,\u201d Chapman said, underscoring the shift away from grant-based assistance.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        The policy marks one of London\u2019s most significant Africa-focused moves since the current government took office more than a year ago. It also comes at a time of heightened uncertainty in global trade, following months of volatile tariff decisions from Washington that have disrupted supply chains.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        The United States has similarly signalled its intent to deepen commercial ties, particularly around critical minerals and energy, reinforcing Africa\u2019s rising importance in global economic strategy.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The strategy comes after Britain reduced its aid budget by 40 percent this year, a move that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-193855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}