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Liu Xianfa, China's Special Representative on African Affairs, will visit Ethiopia, Djibouti and Egypt in early and mid-November, and Hu Changchun, the Foreign Ministry's Horn of Africa envoy, will visit Eritrea in early November, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on 2 November.
Hu Changchun, China's Special Envoy for Horn of Africa Affairs, attended the opening on 29 October of a training workshop in Chengdu for think-tank and media representatives from countries including Kenya, who will also visit Xinjiang, China's Foreign Ministry said on 30 October.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Djibouti's foreign minister in Beijing on 21 October that China encourages Chinese firms to invest in Djibouti, and the two signed a memorandum on cooperation under the Global Security Initiative, China's foreign ministry said.
Ethiopia closed its Asmara embassy and ordered 10 Eritrean diplomats out in 48 hours; Eritrea severed all diplomatic ties, as heavy fighting resumes in northern Ethiopia.
