{"id":223600,"date":"2026-02-12T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egypt-deploys-forces-to-somalia-following-israels-recognition-of-somaliland\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:04:58","slug":"somalia-egypt-deploys-forces-to-somalia-following-israels-recognition-of-somaliland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/somalia-egypt-deploys-forces-to-somalia-following-israels-recognition-of-somaliland\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Egypt Deploys Forces to Somalia Following Israel&#8217;s Recognition of Somaliland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">A report by Al Arabiya said Egypt&#8217;s involvement signals Cairo&#8217;s commitment to Somalia&#8217;s &#8220;territorial integrity&#8221; and unity. The development follows Israel&#8217;s recognition of Somaliland and comes at a time when regional attention is focused on the Red Sea and the ongoing conflict in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have also drawn renewed scrutiny. Egypt&#8217;s president recently visited the UAE, which has faced accusations of supporting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan&#8217;s civil war&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120056.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>A report by Al Arabiya said Egypt&#8217;s involvement signals Cairo&#8217;s commitment to Somalia&#8217;s &#8220;territorial integrity&#8221; and unity. The development follows Israel&#8217;s recognition of Somaliland and comes at a time when regional attention is focused on the Red Sea and the ongoing conflict in Sudan. Tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have also drawn renewed scrutiny. Egypt&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":223601,"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":[258,256,13205,4697,415,5097,7737,257,16576,4690,869,254],"class_list":["post-223600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deploys","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-forces","tag-israels","tag-news","tag-recognition","tag-somalia","tag-somaliland","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/223600","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=223600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}