{"id":188180,"date":"2025-01-09T01:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-somalia-to-discuss-troop-contributions-for-au-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T01:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:05:03","slug":"egypt-somalia-to-discuss-troop-contributions-for-au-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-somalia-to-discuss-troop-contributions-for-au-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, Somalia to Discuss Troop Contributions for AU Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Cairo \u2014 In an effort to bolster the fight against Islamist insurgents, Somalia will engage in talks with Egypt next week to discuss potential troop contributions to the African Union&#8217;s mission in the region, officials confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Scheduled for January 15 to 17 in Cairo, these talks follow a recent statement from Egypt&#8217;s Foreign Minister expressing readiness to supply forces to the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission (AUSSOM) at Somalia&#8217;s behest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Somalia, in a notable&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080331.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>Cairo \u2014 In an effort to bolster the fight against Islamist insurgents, Somalia will engage in talks with Egypt next week to discuss potential troop contributions to the African Union&#8217;s mission in the region, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Scheduled for January 15 to 17 in Cairo, these talks follow a recent statement from Egypt&#8217;s Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581738:867035127e93816e76bfc0a09e4d1f54:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,21858,6686,4697,415,6161,257,4690,254,7806],"class_list":["post-188180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-contributions","tag-discuss","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-mission","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troop"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581738:867035127e93816e76bfc0a09e4d1f54:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188180","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=188180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}