{"id":4466,"date":"2014-07-26T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T08:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2014-07-26T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T08:57:42","slug":"japan-to-post-intelligence-officer-at-sdf-base-in-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/japan-to-post-intelligence-officer-at-sdf-base-in-djibouti\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to post intelligence officer at SDF base in Djibouti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2013 The government plans to station an intelligence officer at the Self-Defense Forces base in Djibouti to deal with antipiracy operations and gather information on terrorist activities and other security matters, a source familiar with Japan-U.S. relations said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements are under way for the officer to work in coordination with U.S. military intelligence, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The move is intended as a long-term measure to secure the base by augmenting its antipiracy mission with other roles in the hopes it will lead to a greater Japanese presence in U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Middle East and Africa, the source added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Djibouti News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2014\/07\/26\/national\/japan-to-post-intelligence-officer-at-sdf-base-in-djibouti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2013 The government plans to station an intelligence officer at the Self-Defense Forces base in Djibouti to deal with antipiracy operations and gather information on terrorist activities and other security matters, a source familiar with Japan-U.S. relations said Saturday. Arrangements are under way for the officer to work in coordination with U.S. military intelligence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,3218,3219,3217,4701,568,4695,1479,3221,3220,257,3216,3215,254,606,3222,2282,3223],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antipiracy","tag-antipiracy-mission","tag-antipiracy-operations","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-east-africa","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-japanese-presence-in-u-n-peacekeeping-operations","tag-news","tag-self-defense-forces","tag-self-defense-forces-base-in-djibouti","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-n","tag-u-n-peacekeeping-operations","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-military-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/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=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}