{"id":232649,"date":"2026-05-08T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/ethiopia-welcomes-mozambican-president-as-leaders-signal-deeper-bilateral-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:16:09","slug":"ethiopia-welcomes-mozambican-president-as-leaders-signal-deeper-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/ethiopia-welcomes-mozambican-president-as-leaders-signal-deeper-bilateral-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Welcomes Mozambican President As Leaders Signal Deeper Bilateral Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday officially welcomed Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo to the National Palace, marking the start of a high-level visit aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two African nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The reception ceremony in Addis Ababa underscored growing diplomatic engagement between Ethiopia and Mozambique, with both sides expected to explore new areas of partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a message shared on social media, Prime Minister Abiy described Ethiopia as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604280060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa \u2014 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday officially welcomed Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo to the National Palace, marking the start of a high-level visit aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two African nations. The reception ceremony in Addis Ababa underscored growing diplomatic engagement between Ethiopia and Mozambique, with both sides expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232650,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,6333,10916,4716,4381,7751,682,257,2450,13968,254,7051,6132],"class_list":["post-232649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bilateral","tag-deeper","tag-ethiopia","tag-leaders","tag-mozambican","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-signal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties","tag-welcomes"],"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\/232649","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=232649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}