{"id":4806,"date":"2014-08-13T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2014-08-13T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:12:09","slug":"egypts-leader-in-russia-for-talks-on-arms-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-leader-in-russia-for-talks-on-arms-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Leader in Russia for Talks on Arms, Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi focused on boosting trade and military cooperation on his first presidential visit to Russia, where he was greeted with a display of weapons right upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has signaled its desire to expand ties with Egypt, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East. When el-Sissi visited Moscow in February, Russian President Vladimir Putin wished him success in the presidential election \u2014 though el-Sissi hadn&#8217;t yet announced his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt was Moscow&#8217;s closest Arab ally in the 1950s and &#8217;60s, when nationalist leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser turned from U.S. support to win Soviet backing for his drive to modernize the country and the military. The Egyptians partnered with the Soviets to build the High Dam, a mega-project to control floods and provide electricity and water for irrigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/russia-greets-egypts-el-sissi-arms-display-24943060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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>Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi focused on boosting trade and military cooperation on his first presidential visit to Russia, where he was greeted with a display of weapons right upon arrival. Russia has signaled its desire to expand ties with Egypt, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East. When el-Sissi visited Moscow in February, Russian [&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":[338],"tags":[3559,258,256,4697,415,3562,1304,257,4694,3560,1048,254,3561],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel-fattah-el-sissi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-el-sissi","tag-military-cooperation","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-presidential-visit-to-russia","tag-russia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","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=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/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=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}