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The tension between Ethiopia and Egypt appears to have escalated as Cairo extends support to Somalia’s peace mission and an offer of security personnel to replace the African Union-backed force, whose mandate is nearing its end.<\/p>\n
The prospect of Egyptian troops in close proximity has raised concerns in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa’s foreign ministry issued a statement declaring that the country “cannot stand idle while other actors are taking measures to destabilise the region.”<\/p>\n
Since 2007, Somalia’s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The tension between Ethiopia and Egypt appears to have escalated as Cairo extends support to Somalia’s peace mission and an offer of security personnel to replace the African Union-backed force, whose mandate is nearing its end. The prospect of Egyptian troops in close proximity has raised concerns in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa’s foreign ministry issued a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":179770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650721:d932553dd3f2047419b6934cbb1acf1e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7102,5987,4697,415,12380,5939,257,4690,254,27728,7182],"class_list":["post-179769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-concerns","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-escalate","tag-ethiopian","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparking","tag-tensions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650721:d932553dd3f2047419b6934cbb1acf1e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179769","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=179769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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