{"id":206277,"date":"2025-09-04T22:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-egypt-bahrain-bolster-ties-issue-urgent-call-for-ceasefire-and-prisoner-swap-in-gaza-joint-statement\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:43:52","slug":"north-africa-egypt-bahrain-bolster-ties-issue-urgent-call-for-ceasefire-and-prisoner-swap-in-gaza-joint-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-egypt-bahrain-bolster-ties-issue-urgent-call-for-ceasefire-and-prisoner-swap-in-gaza-joint-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Egypt, Bahrain Bolster Ties, Issue Urgent Call for Ceasefire and Prisoner Swap in Gaza &#8211; Joint Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Egypt and Bahrain issued a joint statement on Wednesday 3 September, 2025 calling for positive engagement in efforts to stop the war and achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, allowing the exchange of captives and prisoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The statement was issued as Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister made a visit to Cairo, where he met with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Wednesdayon Wednesday 3 September, 2025 .<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The joint statement stressed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040584.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 and Bahrain issued a joint statement on Wednesday 3 September, 2025 calling for positive engagement in efforts to stop the war and achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, allowing the exchange of captives and prisoners. The statement was issued as Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister made a visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206278,"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":[258,256,3977,18335,6880,1509,4697,415,2671,8922,6984,257,6732,25098,254,6065,17701,7051,11318],"class_list":["post-206277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bahrain","tag-bolster","tag-call","tag-ceasefire","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-gaza","tag-issue","tag-joint","tag-news","tag-north","tag-prisoner","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","tag-swap","tag-ties","tag-urgent"],"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\/206277","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=206277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}