{"id":236496,"date":"2026-06-16T17:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-somalia-egypt-discuss-strengthening-defence-and-security-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:14:53","slug":"egypt-somalia-egypt-discuss-strengthening-defence-and-security-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-somalia-egypt-discuss-strengthening-defence-and-security-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Somalia, Egypt Discuss Strengthening Defence and Security Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Mogadishu \u2014 Somalia&#8217;s Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi met on Monday with Egypt&#8217;s Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs, Mohamed Karim Fouad, to discuss ways of enhancing bilateral ties, with a particular focus on defence and security cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to Somali officials, the talks centered on deepening relations between Mogadishu and Cairo and expanding collaboration in areas related to security and military affairs amid Somalia&#8217;s ongoing efforts to combat militant groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606160219.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>Mogadishu \u2014 Somalia&#8217;s Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi met on Monday with Egypt&#8217;s Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs, Mohamed Karim Fouad, to discuss ways of enhancing bilateral ties, with a particular focus on defence and security cooperation. According to Somali officials, the talks centered on deepening relations between Mogadishu and Cairo and expanding collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236497,"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":[258,256,6454,6874,6686,4697,415,257,4586,4690,254,7148],"class_list":["post-236496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cooperation","tag-defence","tag-discuss","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-security","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthening"],"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\/236496","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=236496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}