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Washington has said a visit by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to Africa aims to strengthen bilateral ties, but the timing raises questions about the US’s interests in the Red Sea corridor.<\/em><\/p>\n US<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Deputy Secretary of State\u00a0Christopher Landau is on a diplomatic tour of\u00a0Egypt<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Ethiopia<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Kenya<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Djibouti<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from January 24 to February 1.<\/p>\n According to the\u00a0Department of State<\/strong><\/a>, Landau’s visit aims to promote\u00a0President Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>‘s priorities of “rebalancing trade, ensuring a positive…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Washington has said a visit by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to Africa aims to strengthen bilateral ties, but the timing raises questions about the US’s interests in the Red Sea corridor. US\u00a0Deputy Secretary of State\u00a0Christopher Landau is on a diplomatic tour of\u00a0Egypt,\u00a0Ethiopia,\u00a0Kenya\u00a0and\u00a0Djibouti\u00a0from January 24 to February 1. According to the\u00a0Department of State, Landau’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222601,"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\/00680650:12a54a187b914cba3fe4d5ca1c315b32:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,568,5882,4342,257,10722,10361,254,6017,7189],"class_list":["post-222600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti-news","tag-envoy","tag-eyes","tag-news","tag-red","tag-sea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-visits"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680650:12a54a187b914cba3fe4d5ca1c315b32:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222600","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=222600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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