{"id":182749,"date":"2024-10-18T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/east-africa-egypt-ethiopia-hostilities-are-playing-out-in-the-horn-the-risk-of-new-proxy-wars-is-high\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:31:09","slug":"east-africa-egypt-ethiopia-hostilities-are-playing-out-in-the-horn-the-risk-of-new-proxy-wars-is-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/east-africa-egypt-ethiopia-hostilities-are-playing-out-in-the-horn-the-risk-of-new-proxy-wars-is-high\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Egypt-Ethiopia Hostilities Are Playing Out in the Horn &#8211; the Risk of New Proxy Wars Is High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"93\">Egypt recently deepened its involvement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.uneca.org\/handle\/10855\/23726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war-weary<\/a> Horn of Africa by arming Somalia and deploying its troops in the embattled country. To Ethiopia&#8217;s growing alarm, Egypt is also set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/tea\/news\/east-africa\/egypt-debuts-in-new-somalia-peacekeeping-force-4717646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">join<\/a> the multinational force supporting the Somali army against the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/al-shabaab-is-18-years-old-six-factors-behind-the-somali-militant-groups-resilience-236722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jihadist threat<\/a> by al-Shabaab. Egypt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/tea\/news\/east-africa\/donors-troop-contributors-in-jitters-over-egypt-s-new-role-4786854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potentially destabilising presence<\/a> in the region is seen a direct consequence of Ethiopia&#8217;s port agreement with breakaway Somaliland, which Somalia took as a direct affront. Endalcachew Bayeh, a political&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170379.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>Egypt recently deepened its involvement in the war-weary Horn of Africa by arming Somalia and deploying its troops in the embattled country. To Ethiopia&#8217;s growing alarm, Egypt is also set to join the multinational force supporting the Somali army against the jihadist threat by al-Shabaab. Egypt&#8217;s potentially destabilising presence in the region is seen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550724:c9a36086a44c362e4b01f3de71170716:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6719,415,33362,6184,7150,6178,257,16571,32069,9590,254,14632],"class_list":["post-182749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptethiopia","tag-high","tag-horn","tag-hostilities","tag-news","tag-playing","tag-proxy","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wars"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550724:c9a36086a44c362e4b01f3de71170716:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182749","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=182749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}