{"id":181200,"date":"2024-09-24T11:40:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-sends-largest-military-aid-shipment-to-somalia-amid-regional-tensions\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:40:26","slug":"egypt-sends-largest-military-aid-shipment-to-somalia-amid-regional-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-sends-largest-military-aid-shipment-to-somalia-amid-regional-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Sends &#8216;Largest Military Aid&#8217; Shipment to Somalia Amid Regional Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Addis Abeba \u2014 An Egyptian military cargo ship arrived in Mogadishu yesterday, delivering what media reports describe as &#8220;the largest shipment of military aid&#8221; to Somalia since the United Nations lifted its arms embargo on the country in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GaroweOnline\/status\/1838130254868619360\">According to Garowe Online<\/a>, the shipment included heavy artillery, anti-tank weapons, and armored vehicles, marking a significant boost to Somalia&#8217;s defense capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The Egyptian warship began unloading the weapons on Sunday, one diplomat told&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409240144.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>Addis Abeba \u2014 An Egyptian military cargo ship arrived in Mogadishu yesterday, delivering what media reports describe as &#8220;the largest shipment of military aid&#8221; to Somalia since the United Nations lifted its arms embargo on the country in December 2023. According to Garowe Online, the shipment included heavy artillery, anti-tank weapons, and armored vehicles, marking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181201,"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":[258,256,7828,4697,415,10885,3318,257,4268,7281,32103,4690,254,7182],"class_list":["post-181200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-largest","tag-military","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-sends","tag-shipment","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions"],"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\/181200","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=181200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}