{"id":191412,"date":"2025-02-14T17:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-afar-sultanate-condemns-djiboutis-drone-strike-as-indiscriminate-urges-immediate-international-action\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:49:48","slug":"ethiopia-afar-sultanate-condemns-djiboutis-drone-strike-as-indiscriminate-urges-immediate-international-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-afar-sultanate-condemns-djiboutis-drone-strike-as-indiscriminate-urges-immediate-international-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Afar Sultanate Condemns Djibouti&#8217;s Drone Strike As &#8216;Indiscriminate&#8217;, Urges &#8216;Immediate International Action&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Sultanate of Afar, led by Sultan Ahmed Alimirah Hanfare, has condemned the 30 January 2025 drone strike by Djibouti&#8217;s security forces, calling it a &#8220;heinous and indiscriminate&#8221; attack that targeted innocent Afar civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2618768\/Sultanate_of_Afar_Statement___02_10_2025.pdf?p=pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, the Sultanate expressed its &#8220;unequivocal condemnation&#8221; of the attack, stating that innocent civilians&#8211;&#8220;women, children, and the elderly&#8221;&#8211;were among those killed in a remote village. The victims, it said, were already struggling with &#8220;malnutrition and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140025.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>The Sultanate of Afar, led by Sultan Ahmed Alimirah Hanfare, has condemned the 30 January 2025 drone strike by Djibouti&#8217;s security forces, calling it a &#8220;heinous and indiscriminate&#8221; attack that targeted innocent Afar civilians. In a statement, the Sultanate expressed its &#8220;unequivocal condemnation&#8221; of the attack, stating that innocent civilians&#8211;&#8220;women, children, and the elderly&#8221;&#8211;were among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191413,"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":[6394,4788,258,256,7610,568,7235,23813,4716,12528,4337,257,254,2080,50641,6810],"class_list":["post-191412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-action","tag-afar","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condemns","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-drone","tag-ethiopia","tag-indiscriminate","tag-international","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-sultanate","tag-urges"],"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\/191412","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=191412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}