{"id":223324,"date":"2026-02-10T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-somali-president-begins-official-visit-to-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:00:17","slug":"somalia-somali-president-begins-official-visit-to-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-somali-president-begins-official-visit-to-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Somali President Begins Official Visit to Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Cairo \u2014 Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Cairo on Saturday on an official visit aimed at strengthening diplomatic ties and strategic cooperation with Egypt, Somali officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">During his stay, Mohamud is expected to hold talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, focusing on deepening bilateral relations, regional developments and the role both countries can play in promoting stability, peace and the security of key regional and international trade routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090056.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>Cairo \u2014 Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Cairo on Saturday on an official visit aimed at strengthening diplomatic ties and strategic cooperation with Egypt, Somali officials said. During his stay, Mohamud is expected to hold talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, focusing on deepening bilateral relations, regional developments and the role both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":223325,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,8082,4697,415,257,5092,2450,263,4690,254,6250],"class_list":["post-223324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-official","tag-president","tag-somali","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visit"],"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\/223324","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=223324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}