{"id":245093,"date":"2026-09-21T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cia-chief-affirm-support-for-somalias-sovereignty\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:30:08","slug":"egypt-cia-chief-affirm-support-for-somalias-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cia-chief-affirm-support-for-somalias-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, CIA Chief Affirm Support for Somalia&#8217;s Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Cairo \u2014 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Cairo on Sunday, September 20, 2026, where both leaders reaffirmed support for Somalia&#8217;s security and stability. The meeting, also attended by Egyptian General Intelligence Director Hassan Rashad, focused on regional developments including the situations in Somalia, Sudan, Gaza, and the Horn of Africa .<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The talks underscore Egypt&#8217;s deepening role as a security partner in the Horn of Africa. Cairo has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609210230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Cairo \u2014 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Cairo on Sunday, September 20, 2026, where both leaders reaffirmed support for Somalia&#8217;s security and stability. The meeting, also attended by Egyptian General Intelligence Director Hassan Rashad, focused on regional developments including the situations in Somalia, Sudan, Gaza, and the Horn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245094,"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":[6933,258,256,6510,4030,4697,415,257,16830,254,864,6096],"class_list":["post-245093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-affirm","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-cia","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-somalias","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty","tag-support"],"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\/245093","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=245093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}