{"id":178149,"date":"2024-08-08T21:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egypt-to-deploy-troops-to-somalia-amid-tensions-with-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:26:06","slug":"somalia-egypt-to-deploy-troops-to-somalia-amid-tensions-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egypt-to-deploy-troops-to-somalia-amid-tensions-with-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Egypt to Deploy Troops to Somalia Amid Tensions With Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council has approved a request by Egypt to deploy troops to the newly endorsed African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The decision involves the AU, Egypt, Somalia, and Ethiopia, as well as the outgoing African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The AUSSOM mission will take over from ATMIS in January 2025, as Somalia continues to build up its security forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The deployment will take place in Somalia, within the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408080466.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council has approved a request by Egypt to deploy troops to the newly endorsed African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). The decision involves the AU, Egypt, Somalia, and Ethiopia, as well as the outgoing African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). The AUSSOM mission will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178150,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,13151,4697,415,4716,257,4690,254,7182,8515],"class_list":["post-178149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deploy","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions","tag-troops"],"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\/178149","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}