{"id":13149,"date":"2020-01-23T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:21:17","slug":"india-opens-its-first-mahatma-gandhi-convention-centre-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-opens-its-first-mahatma-gandhi-convention-centre-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"India opens its first Mahatma Gandhi convention centre in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>India has opened its first Mahatma Gandhi International convention centre(MGICC) in Niger.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mahatma Gandhi convention centre:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Mahatma Gandhi Convention Centre is the first centre to be established in Africa by India to honour Mahatma Gandhi.<\/li><li>The convention centre has been designed to witness high-level and wide-ranging participation from African Union member states and other high-level conventions.<\/li><li>Besides Niger, convention centres will also be set up by India in eight other African nations &#8212; Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gabon and Libera upon request by these countries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Niger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Niger is a landlocked western African country.The capital is Niamey.<\/li><li>The country takes its name from the Niger River, which flows through the southwestern part of its territory.<\/li><li>India and Niger relations have expanded significantly in recent years. India has provided Lines of Credit worth $96 million to Niger for projects in transport, electrification, solar energy and potable drinking water&nbsp;<\/li><li>India has also extended $15 million grant assistance to Niger in support of organizing the African Union (AU) summit in July,2019.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/9lS8Q8LijLAo2PM-XTGlybbigsyTiKe0eC_yy9n7Vk990iJc-n1od3vv6Sqdd1Dm60NcJvkTjAIHta2t3WiVornYb_SXd3ziNEXPsqtY2QxkD_HLa2jhmBi9U876ckfZwHynjTBd\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:India has opened its first Mahatma Gandhi International convention centre(MGICC) in Niger. Facts: About Mahatma Gandhi convention centre: The Mahatma Gandhi Convention Centre is the first centre to be established in Africa by India to honour Mahatma Gandhi. The convention centre has been designed to witness high-level and wide-ranging participation from African Union member states&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-opens-its-first-mahatma-gandhi-convention-centre-in-niger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India opens its first Mahatma Gandhi convention centre in Niger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5901,5609],"class_list":["post-13149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-mahatma-gandhi-convention-centre","tag-niger","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704647023},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}