{"id":234564,"date":"2026-05-27T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/kenya-angola-sign-defence-cooperation-pact-to-boost-regional-security-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:51:07","slug":"kenya-angola-sign-defence-cooperation-pact-to-boost-regional-security-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/kenya-angola-sign-defence-cooperation-pact-to-boost-regional-security-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya, Angola Sign Defence Cooperation Pact to Boost Regional Security Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi Kenya \u2014 <em>Kenya and Angola have signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) aimed at strengthening military collaboration, regional security, and strategic engagement between the two African nations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The agreement was signed in Nairobi by Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya and Angola&#8217;s Minister of National Defence, Former Combatants and Homeland Veterans L\u00facio Gon\u00e7alves Amaral during a ceremony held at the Defence Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Speaking after the signing, Tuya said the pact marks a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605260022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi Kenya \u2014 Kenya and Angola have signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) aimed at strengthening military collaboration, regional security, and strategic engagement between the two African nations. The agreement was signed in Nairobi by Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya and Angola&#8217;s Minister of National Defence, Former Combatants and Homeland Veterans L\u00facio Gon\u00e7alves Amaral during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234565,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,6557,6454,6874,4688,257,7530,4268,4586,4368,254,7051],"class_list":["post-234564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-boost","tag-cooperation","tag-defence","tag-kenya","tag-news","tag-pact","tag-regional","tag-security","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties"],"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\/234564","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=234564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}