{"id":193513,"date":"2025-03-14T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-drone-attack-in-ethiopias-afar-region-kills-more-than-eight-residents-accuse-djiboutian-govt\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:02:11","slug":"ethiopia-drone-attack-in-ethiopias-afar-region-kills-more-than-eight-residents-accuse-djiboutian-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-drone-attack-in-ethiopias-afar-region-kills-more-than-eight-residents-accuse-djiboutian-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Drone Attack in Ethiopia&#8217;s Afar Region Kills More Than Eight &#8211; Residents Accuse Djiboutian Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">More than eight people were killed, and several others injured in a drone attack on 30 January 2025 in Afar Regional State, near the Ethiopia-Djibouti border, according to sources who spoke with Addis Standard. The attack occurred in Siyaru Kebele, Elidar district, close to the border area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A resident, who requested anonymity, said the attack happened &#8220;multiple times during the night&#8221; and resulted in &#8220;the deaths of more than eight people.&#8221; However, the exact number of casualties remains unclear,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130388.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>More than eight people were killed, and several others injured in a drone attack on 30 January 2025 in Afar Regional State, near the Ethiopia-Djibouti border, according to sources who spoke with Addis Standard. The attack occurred in Siyaru Kebele, Elidar district, close to the border area. A resident, who requested anonymity, said the attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[8893,4788,258,256,1398,568,7188,23813,4716,7144,4357,7500,257,6324,4288,254],"class_list":["post-193513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-accuse","tag-afar","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutian","tag-drone","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopias","tag-govt","tag-kills","tag-news","tag-region","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193513","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=193513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}