{"id":183548,"date":"2024-10-29T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/east-africa-djibouti-seeks-support-for-top-au-post\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:29:07","slug":"east-africa-djibouti-seeks-support-for-top-au-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/east-africa-djibouti-seeks-support-for-top-au-post\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Djibouti Seeks Support for Top AU Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">President Mnangagwa yesterday received a special envoy from his Djibouti counterpart, President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, who has requested support for that country&#8217;s candidate for the African Union Commission chairmanship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Djibouti Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssef is one of four candidates in the race to succeed the<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">incumbent, Moussa Faki, who has held the position since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking after meeting President Mnangagwa at State House in Harare yesterday, Djibouti Minister of Housing and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410290431.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mnangagwa yesterday received a special envoy from his Djibouti counterpart, President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, who has requested support for that country&#8217;s candidate for the African Union Commission chairmanship. Djibouti Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssef is one of four candidates in the race to succeed the incumbent, Moussa Faki, who has held the position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":183549,"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":[567],"tags":[258,256,4701,568,6719,257,9145,8111,254,6096,7319],"class_list":["post-183548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-east","tag-news","tag-post","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-top"],"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\/183548","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}