{"id":206098,"date":"2025-09-02T10:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-tensions-rise-between-egypt-and-ethiopia-over-military-presence-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:33:13","slug":"ethiopia-tensions-rise-between-egypt-and-ethiopia-over-military-presence-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-tensions-rise-between-egypt-and-ethiopia-over-military-presence-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Tensions Rise Between Egypt and Ethiopia Over Military Presence in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia are escalating amid growing concerns over military deployments in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Ethiopia recently warned it is closely monitoring incoming Egyptian forces, while Egyptian military officials arrived in Mogadishu on Sunday to assess deployment locations and operational regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The two countries have long-standing disputes rooted in the Nile River waters, particularly over Ethiopia&#8217;s controversial Grand Renaissance Dam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ethiopia views Egypt&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509020051.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, Somalia \u2014 Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia are escalating amid growing concerns over military deployments in Somalia. Ethiopia recently warned it is closely monitoring incoming Egyptian forces, while Egyptian military officials arrived in Mogadishu on Sunday to assess deployment locations and operational regions. The two countries have long-standing disputes rooted in the Nile River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206099,"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":[258,256,4697,415,4716,3318,257,10284,10256,4690,254,7182],"class_list":["post-206098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-military","tag-news","tag-presence","tag-rise","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions"],"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\/206098","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=206098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}