{"id":217160,"date":"2025-12-18T22:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/somalia-djibouti-defence-chiefs-hold-talks-on-security-cooperation-in-mogadishu\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:05:02","slug":"somalia-djibouti-defence-chiefs-hold-talks-on-security-cooperation-in-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/somalia-djibouti-defence-chiefs-hold-talks-on-security-cooperation-in-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia, Djibouti Defence Chiefs Hold Talks On Security Cooperation in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 Somalia&#8217;s Defence Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi held talks on Wednesday in Mogadishu with his Djiboutian counterpart, Hassan Omar Mohamed, focusing on strengthening bilateral cooperation in security and defence, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Djiboutian defence minister arrived in the Somali capital to attend the 35th Ordinary Session of the Council of Defence and Security Ministers of the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF), a regional mechanism aimed at promoting peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180175.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>Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 Somalia&#8217;s Defence Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi held talks on Wednesday in Mogadishu with his Djiboutian counterpart, Hassan Omar Mohamed, focusing on strengthening bilateral cooperation in security and defence, officials said. The Djiboutian defence minister arrived in the Somali capital to attend the 35th Ordinary Session of the Council of Defence and Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":217161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660124:8d1df32fc76493ee8aab9aacd0a4e78c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,7493,6454,6874,4701,568,7204,449,257,4586,4690,254,5038],"class_list":["post-217160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chiefs","tag-cooperation","tag-defence","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-hold","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-security","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660124:8d1df32fc76493ee8aab9aacd0a4e78c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217160","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=217160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}