The new embassies were announced in a foreign ministry press statement and form part of a broader “Africa strategy” to be presented by the government on Monday.
Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen earlier this month gave advance notice of the strategy at the Moderate party summer conference, when he also said that it would include a programme to attract more African students to Denmark.
The new Senegal and Tunisia embassies will be completely new facilities, while the Rwanda embassy will be added to an existing Danish government office in the central Africa country.
Meanwhile, Danish embassies in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Nigeria will be upgraded to regional hubs, enabling better diplomatic coverage across broader regions of Africa.
The announcement means that Denmark will have ten diplomats in Africa by 2026.
Two embassies, in Mali and Burkina Faso, will be closed due to “very limited opportunity for presence in the Sahel region after a series of military coups in recent years,” the ministry statement said.
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