{"id":239253,"date":"2026-07-22T06:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-u-s-official-visits-cairo-asmara-for-security-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:39:57","slug":"egypt-u-s-official-visits-cairo-asmara-for-security-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-u-s-official-visits-cairo-asmara-for-security-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: U.S. Official Visits Cairo, Asmara for Security Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">US Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, MassadBoulos, made a diplomatic visit to Egypt, Somalia, and Eritrea as Washington seeks to step up engagement in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">During his visit, Boulos held talks with Somali Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali, where the two sides discussed security and stability in the Horn of Africa, bilateral cooperation, and Somalia&#8217;s ongoing domestic political dialogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In Eritrea, Boulos met Foreign Minister Osman Saleh to review US-Eritrea bilateral relations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607210114.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>US Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, MassadBoulos, made a diplomatic visit to Egypt, Somalia, and Eritrea as Washington seeks to step up engagement in the region. During his visit, Boulos held talks with Somali Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali, where the two sides discussed security and stability in the Horn of Africa, bilateral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,49714,341,4697,415,257,5092,4586,254,5038,2282,7189],"class_list":["post-239253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asmara","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-official","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks","tag-u-s","tag-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239253","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=239253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}