{"id":224816,"date":"2026-02-24T00:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-of-africa-today-february-23-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:34:03","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-february-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-of-africa-today-february-23-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; February 23, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"61\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"61\">Eritrea-Ethiopia Tensions Raise Fears of Renewed Conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"202\">Eritrea and Ethiopia both claim to be <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preparing for war<\/a>, with the landlocked Ethiopia claiming it needs access to the Red Sea, which is viewed by Eritrea as a provocation. Violence is escalating in the Tigray region as tensions increase.\u00a0 Violence along their shared Tigray border escalated, and Ethiopia accused Eritrea of sending ammunition to rebels in the Amhara region, an allegation Eritrea denied, calling it a pretext for conflict&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230417.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Eritrea-Ethiopia Tensions Raise Fears of Renewed Conflict Eritrea and Ethiopia both claim to be preparing for war, with the landlocked Ethiopia claiming it needs access to the Red Sea, which is viewed by Eritrea as a provocation. Violence is escalating in the Tigray region as tensions increase.\u00a0 Violence along their shared Tigray border escalated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224817,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6183,6555,5742,1218,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-224816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-february","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-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\/224816","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}