{"id":206613,"date":"2025-09-09T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/kenya-somalia-kenya-and-djibouti-hold-talks-on-joint-fight-against-al-shabaab\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:06:06","slug":"kenya-somalia-kenya-and-djibouti-hold-talks-on-joint-fight-against-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/kenya-somalia-kenya-and-djibouti-hold-talks-on-joint-fight-against-al-shabaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Somalia, Kenya, and Djibouti Hold Talks On Joint Fight Against Al-Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Somalia&#8217;s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held high-level side meetings with his counterparts from Kenya and Djibouti during the 2nd Africa Climate Summit, underscoring the need for stronger regional cooperation in countering al-Shabaab and fostering long-term peace in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Somali leader met with President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh of Djibouti and President William Ruto of Kenya. According to officials, the discussions centered on enhancing joint security operations, strengthening&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509090562.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held high-level side meetings with his counterparts from Kenya and Djibouti during the 2nd Africa Climate Summit, underscoring the need for stronger regional cooperation in countering al-Shabaab and fostering long-term peace in the Horn of Africa. The Somali leader met with President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh of Djibouti and President William [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206614,"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":[567],"tags":[258,256,7804,4701,568,4345,7204,6984,4688,257,4690,254,5038],"class_list":["post-206613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alshabaab","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-fight","tag-hold","tag-joint","tag-kenya","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks"],"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\/206613","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}