{"id":216335,"date":"2025-12-11T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/ethiopia-zambia-sign-major-military-cooperation-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:01:25","slug":"ethiopia-zambia-sign-major-military-cooperation-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/ethiopia-zambia-sign-major-military-cooperation-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, Zambia Sign Major Military Cooperation Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Ethiopia and Zambia have solidified their defense ties by signing a broad military cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening partnership across several key fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The formal agreement was concluded following high-level discussions between the respective military chiefs and defense ministers in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The foundation for the deal was laid during talks between Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF), and Lieutenant General Geoffrey&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa \u2014 Ethiopia and Zambia have solidified their defense ties by signing a broad military cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening partnership across several key fields. The formal agreement was concluded following high-level discussions between the respective military chiefs and defense ministers in Addis Ababa. The foundation for the deal was laid during talks between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216336,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,6423,6454,4716,7373,3318,257,4368,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-216335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-cooperation","tag-ethiopia","tag-major","tag-military","tag-news","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/216335","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}