{"id":206036,"date":"2025-09-01T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egyptian-military-delegation-visits-mogadishu-ahead-of-planned-troop-deployment\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:30:51","slug":"somalia-egyptian-military-delegation-visits-mogadishu-ahead-of-planned-troop-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egyptian-military-delegation-visits-mogadishu-ahead-of-planned-troop-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Egyptian Military Delegation Visits Mogadishu Ahead of Planned Troop Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Mogadishu \u2014 A high-level Egyptian military delegation arrived in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday, as Cairo prepares to deploy troops as part of the African Union Mission (AUSSOM), officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The delegation, composed of 16 senior officers from Egypt&#8217;s armed forces, is on a fact-finding mission to assess logistics and infrastructure needed to accommodate Egyptian forces expected to join the AU-led stabilization efforts in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Led by Major General Islam Radwan, the delegation was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509010088.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>Mogadishu \u2014 A high-level Egyptian military delegation arrived in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday, as Cairo prepares to deploy troops as part of the African Union Mission (AUSSOM), officials said. The delegation, composed of 16 senior officers from Egypt&#8217;s armed forces, is on a fact-finding mission to assess logistics and infrastructure needed to accommodate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206037,"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":[258,256,7019,6704,16062,415,6639,3318,449,257,7665,4690,254,7806,7189],"class_list":["post-206036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-delegation","tag-deployment","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-military","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-planned","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troop","tag-visits"],"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\/206036","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=206036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}