{"id":201331,"date":"2025-07-01T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-iraq-seek-closer-ties-amid-regional-challenges\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:14:07","slug":"egypt-iraq-seek-closer-ties-amid-regional-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-iraq-seek-closer-ties-amid-regional-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, Iraq Seek Closer Ties Amid Regional Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Egypt&#8217;s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly met with Iraq&#8217;s President Abdul Latif Rashid on the sidelines of the 4th United Nations Conference on Financing for Development, held in Seville, Spain, as per a Cabinet statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">President Rashid conveyed his greetings to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and highlighted the historic ties between Egypt and Iraq, expressing hope to further strengthen bilateral relations in the coming period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The two sides also discussed ongoing regional developments&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010058.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>Egypt&#8217;s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly met with Iraq&#8217;s President Abdul Latif Rashid on the sidelines of the 4th United Nations Conference on Financing for Development, held in Seville, Spain, as per a Cabinet statement on Monday. President Rashid conveyed his greetings to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and highlighted the historic ties between Egypt and Iraq, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201332,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,6977,11363,4697,415,3984,257,4268,7745,254,7051],"class_list":["post-201331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-closer","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-iraq","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties"],"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\/201331","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=201331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}