Taiwan president begins visit to sole African ally Eswatini

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TAIWAN: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen began her visit to Eswatini with a promise to cooperate on building an oil reserve facility, her office said on Wednesday (Sep 6), looking to shore up ties with the island's last diplomatic ally in Africa. Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is one of only 13 coun

TAIWAN: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen began her visit to Eswatini with a promise to cooperate on building an oil reserve facility, her office said on Wednesday , looking to shore up ties with the island's last diplomatic ally in Africa.

"I look forward to a successful execution of this project so that we will be able to establish a strategic oil reserve facility here to make the supply of energy more secure in the future," Tsai said, according to a video released by her office on Wednesday.Eswatini, which has struggled with fuel shortages in recent years, was left as Taipei's last African ally in 2018 when Burkina Faso switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing.

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