{"id":175827,"date":"2024-07-04T01:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/east-africa-ethiopia-and-djibouti-will-boost-the-eac\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T01:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:44:30","slug":"east-africa-ethiopia-and-djibouti-will-boost-the-eac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/east-africa-ethiopia-and-djibouti-will-boost-the-eac\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Ethiopia and Djibouti Will Boost the EAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The East African Community (EAC) is considering the admission of Ethiopia and Djibouti into the bloc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">This comes on the heels of Somalia joining the bloc, an indicator that regional leaders view the integration expansion as one of the strengths that the region can leverage on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The admission of Ethiopia and Djibouti could potentially unlock new opportunities for economic growth and cooperation, positioning the bloc as a more influential player on the African continent. However, the likely accession&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407030309.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East African Community (EAC) is considering the admission of Ethiopia and Djibouti into the bloc. This comes on the heels of Somalia joining the bloc, an indicator that regional leaders view the integration expansion as one of the strengths that the region can leverage on. The admission of Ethiopia and Djibouti could potentially unlock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":175828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,6557,4701,568,18536,6719,4716,257,254],"class_list":["post-175827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-eac","tag-east","tag-ethiopia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}