{"id":223554,"date":"2026-02-12T00:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/ethiopia-fm-gedion-holds-bilateral-talks-with-lesotho-morocco-counterparts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:36:22","slug":"ethiopia-fm-gedion-holds-bilateral-talks-with-lesotho-morocco-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/ethiopia-fm-gedion-holds-bilateral-talks-with-lesotho-morocco-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: FM Gedion Holds Bilateral Talks With Lesotho, Morocco Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Minister of Foreign Affairs Gedion Timothewos held separate bilateral talks with his counterparts from the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Kingdom of Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The ministers held the meetings on the margins of the 48th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">During his meeting with Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lejone Mpotjoana, Gedion stressed the need to deepen and broaden the longstanding ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110386.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa \u2014 Minister of Foreign Affairs Gedion Timothewos held separate bilateral talks with his counterparts from the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Kingdom of Morocco. The ministers held the meetings on the margins of the 48th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union. During his meeting with Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223555,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6333,22497,4716,49941,6275,4717,1407,5609,257,254,5038],"class_list":["post-223554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bilateral","tag-counterparts","tag-ethiopia","tag-gedion","tag-holds","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks"],"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\/223554","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=223554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}