{"id":208150,"date":"2025-09-25T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenya-sign-2nd-defense-cooperation-agrmt-in-history-covering-intelligence-sharing-joint-exercises\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:18:13","slug":"ethiopia-kenya-sign-2nd-defense-cooperation-agrmt-in-history-covering-intelligence-sharing-joint-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenya-sign-2nd-defense-cooperation-agrmt-in-history-covering-intelligence-sharing-joint-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, Kenya Sign 2nd Defense Cooperation Agrmt in History Covering Intelligence Sharing, Joint Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia and Kenya have signed a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), more than six decades after the first such pact was concluded in 1963, the year Kenya gained independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) announced on 24 September that the agreement was signed at the Ministry of National Defense Headquarters in Addis Abeba, following a bilateral meeting between Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces, and General Charles&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509250035.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia and Kenya have signed a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), more than six decades after the first such pact was concluded in 1963, the year Kenya gained independence. The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) announced on 24 September that the agreement was signed at the Ministry of National Defense Headquarters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":208151,"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":[250],"tags":[7577,258,256,52423,6454,18046,8027,4716,13442,7099,12118,6984,4688,430,257,9713,4368,254],"class_list":["post-208150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-2nd","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agrmt","tag-cooperation","tag-covering","tag-defense","tag-ethiopia","tag-exercises","tag-history","tag-intelligence","tag-joint","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-sharing","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/208150","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=208150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}