{"id":221197,"date":"2026-01-20T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/east-africa-egypts-somalia-push-raises-alarm-in-israel-over-horn-of-africa-balance\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:12:29","slug":"east-africa-egypts-somalia-push-raises-alarm-in-israel-over-horn-of-africa-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/east-africa-egypts-somalia-push-raises-alarm-in-israel-over-horn-of-africa-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Egypt&#8217;s Somalia Push Raises Alarm in Israel Over Horn of Africa Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Jerusalem \u2014 Israeli political and security circles are increasingly alarmed by what they see as Egypt&#8217;s accelerating military and diplomatic footprint in Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, moves viewed in Tel Aviv as a direct response to Israel&#8217;s growing regional presence, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to Israel&#8217;s i24 News channel, Egyptian decision-makers are closely monitoring Israel&#8217;s expanding influence in the Horn of Africa, particularly following Israel&#8217;s recognition of Somaliland,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601200146.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>Jerusalem \u2014 Israeli political and security circles are increasingly alarmed by what they see as Egypt&#8217;s accelerating military and diplomatic footprint in Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, moves viewed in Tel Aviv as a direct response to Israel&#8217;s growing regional presence, Israeli media reported. According to Israel&#8217;s i24 News channel, Egyptian decision-makers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221198,"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\/00490283:4b59b9727a72891a047136ebc5213e11:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,9582,9848,6719,415,6989,7150,2683,257,6354,5234,4690,254],"class_list":["post-221197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-balance","tag-east","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-horn","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-push","tag-raises","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00490283:4b59b9727a72891a047136ebc5213e11:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221197","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=221197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}