Taiwan is to dispatch a medical mission to Somaliland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said on Wednesday, without providing a timeline.
The mission would be part of a medical cooperation agreement with the African country, the ministry said in a news release, adding that the pact was signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) and Somaliland Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Liban Yousuf Osman via videoconference earlier that day.
The mission would be set up at a hospital in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, to provide training for medical workers and help improve the country’s healthcare capacity, it said.
The pact “enables our #HornOfAfrica friend & partner to boost health care services capacity benefiting the people,” the ministry wrote on Twitter.
Medical cooperation has been a key area of collaboration, Wu said at the signing event in Taipei.
After the two countries established informal bilateral ties in July last year, Taiwan launched the cooperation to address the high fatality rate among pregnant women and newborns in Somaliland.
The ties also included the opening of representative offices in each other’s capital and the appointment of envoys.
Apart from government efforts, Taiwanese civil groups have also contributed to the ties, Wu said, referring to medical volunteers from the Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps, and aid provided by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co-affiliated TSMC Charity Foundation and other groups.
Costa Rica sent a group of intelligence officials to Taiwan for a short-term training program, the first time the Central American country has done so since the countries ended official diplomatic relations in 2007, a Costa Rican media outlet reported last week. Five officials from the Costa Rican Directorate of Intelligence and Security last month spent 23 days in Taipei undergoing a series of training sessions focused on national security, La Nacion reported on Friday, quoting unnamed sources. The Costa Rican government has not confirmed the report. The Chinese embassy in Costa Rica protested the news, saying in a statement issued the same
Taiwan’s Liu Ming-i, right, who also goes by the name Ray Liu, poses with a Chinese Taipei flag after winning the gold medal in the men’s physique 170cm competition at the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation Asian Championship in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, yesterday.
Temperatures in New Taipei City’s Sindian District (新店) climbed past 37°C yesterday, as the Central Weather Administration (CWA) issued heat alerts for 16 municipalities, warning the public of intense heat expected across Taiwan. The hottest location in Taiwan was in Sindian, where the mercury reached 37.5°C at about 2pm, according to CWA data. Taipei’s Shilin District (士林) recorded a temperature of 37.4°C at noon, Taitung County’s Jinfeng Township (金峰) at 12:50 pm logged a temperature of 37.4°C and Miaoli County’s Toufen Township (頭份) reached 36.7°C at 11:40am, the CWA said. The weather agency yesterday issued a yellow level information notice for Taipei, New
A year-long renovation of Taipei’s Bangka Park (艋舺公園) began yesterday, as city workers fenced off the site and cleared out belongings left by homeless residents who had been living there. Despite protests from displaced residents, a city official defended the government’s relocation efforts, saying transitional housing has been offered. The renovation of the park in Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華), near Longshan Temple (龍山寺), began at 9am yesterday, as about 20 homeless people packed their belongings and left after being asked to move by city personnel. Among them was a 90-year-old woman surnamed Wang (王), who last week said that she had no plans
RSS