{"id":178573,"date":"2024-08-15T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-and-egypt-sign-defense-and-security-agreement\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T07:44:31","slug":"somalia-and-egypt-sign-defense-and-security-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-and-egypt-sign-defense-and-security-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia and Egypt Sign Defense and Security Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">In the wake of inconclusive indirect negotiations between Somalia and Ethiopia, mediated by the Turkish government, a security and defense cooperation agreement was formalized between Cairo and Mogadishu. This agreement is regarded as a strategic response to Addis Ababa, which has been embroiled in a longstanding dispute concerning the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, met today with Egyptian President&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408150077.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>In the wake of inconclusive indirect negotiations between Somalia and Ethiopia, mediated by the Turkish government, a security and defense cooperation agreement was formalized between Cairo and Mogadishu. This agreement is regarded as a strategic response to Addis Ababa, which has been embroiled in a longstanding dispute concerning the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178574,"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":[258,256,6423,8027,4697,415,257,4586,4368,4690,254],"class_list":["post-178573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-defense","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-security","tag-sign","tag-somalia","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\/178573","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=178573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}