{"id":246254,"date":"2026-10-03T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-au-urges-restraint-as-ethiopia-eritrea-egypt-tensions-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:00:14","slug":"ethiopia-au-urges-restraint-as-ethiopia-eritrea-egypt-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-au-urges-restraint-as-ethiopia-eritrea-egypt-tensions-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: AU Urges Restraint As Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt Tensions Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Addis Ababa \u2014 The African Union Commission has urged Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt to exercise maximum restraint amid heightened tensions between the three countries, warning against actions or statements that could further destabilise the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/en\/pressreleases\/20261001\/statement-auc-escalating-tensions-between-ethiopia-eritrea-and-egypt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement issued in Addis Ababa on Oct. 1<\/a><\/strong>, the commission said it was closely following the situation with concern and called on the three African Union member states to avoid further escalation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;The Commission calls on all three Member States to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610020383.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>Addis Ababa \u2014 The African Union Commission has urged Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt to exercise maximum restraint amid heightened tensions between the three countries, warning against actions or statements that could further destabilise the region. In a statement issued in Addis Ababa on Oct. 1, the commission said it was closely following the situation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":246255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00241442:6da3cbc328ce89d1364b1908c867a9a1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,10920,4716,257,11095,10256,254,7182,6810],"class_list":["post-246254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-eritrea","tag-ethiopia","tag-news","tag-restraint","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00241442:6da3cbc328ce89d1364b1908c867a9a1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246254","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=246254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}