{"id":198846,"date":"2025-05-26T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djiboutis-president-warns-of-uaes-hidden-military-agenda-behind-african-investments\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:17:49","slug":"djiboutis-president-warns-of-uaes-hidden-military-agenda-behind-african-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djiboutis-president-warns-of-uaes-hidden-military-agenda-behind-african-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti&#8217;s President Warns of UAE&#8217;s Hidden Military Agenda Behind African Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em>Mogadishu<\/em> &#8211; Djibouti&#8217;s President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh has issued a stern warning over the growing influence of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) across Africa, accusing the Gulf nation of using economic investments as a cover for expanding military and strategic control on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In an interview with <em>Radio France Internationale (RFI)<\/em>, President Guelleh criticised the UAE&#8217;s $110 billion investment campaign in Africa, calling it a &#8220;strategic ploy&#8221; aimed at deepening military footholds under the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505260040.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>Mogadishu &#8211; Djibouti&#8217;s President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh has issued a stern warning over the growing influence of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) across Africa, accusing the Gulf nation of using economic investments as a cover for expanding military and strategic control on the continent. In an interview with Radio France Internationale (RFI), President Guelleh criticised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198847,"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":[258,256,4380,5701,568,7235,9101,5801,3318,257,2450,254,35775,6853],"class_list":["post-198846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-agenda","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-hidden","tag-investments","tag-military","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uaes","tag-warns"],"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\/198846","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=198846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}