{"id":202954,"date":"2025-07-21T20:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egypt-vows-to-block-ethiopias-red-sea-bid-after-el-sisi-talks-with-hassan-sheikh\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:57:50","slug":"somalia-egypt-vows-to-block-ethiopias-red-sea-bid-after-el-sisi-talks-with-hassan-sheikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egypt-vows-to-block-ethiopias-red-sea-bid-after-el-sisi-talks-with-hassan-sheikh\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Egypt Vows to Block Ethiopia&#8217;s Red Sea Bid After El-Sisi Talks With Hassan Sheikh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Cairo, July 8, 2025 \u2014 Egypt vowed to oppose Ethiopia&#8217;s push for Red Sea access and pledged to accelerate military support to Somalia, deepening a security alliance amid rising regional tensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">After talks with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said Egypt &#8220;will not tolerate moves that threaten Somali sovereignty or the safety of the Red Sea corridor,&#8221; a vital waterway for global trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The warning comes months after Ethiopia signed a controversial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507080066.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, July 8, 2025 \u2014 Egypt vowed to oppose Ethiopia&#8217;s push for Red Sea access and pledged to accelerate military support to Somalia, deepening a security alliance amid rising regional tensions. After talks with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said Egypt &#8220;will not tolerate moves that threaten Somali sovereignty or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202955,"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":[258,256,10798,9056,4697,415,11149,7144,16237,257,10722,10361,9067,4690,254,5038,9639],"class_list":["post-202954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-block","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-elsisi","tag-ethiopias","tag-hassan","tag-news","tag-red","tag-sea","tag-sheikh","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks","tag-vows"],"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\/202954","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=202954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}