{"id":4972,"date":"2014-08-25T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:35:54","slug":"concern-in-egypt-as-libyan-tensions-spill-over-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/concern-in-egypt-as-libyan-tensions-spill-over-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern in Egypt as Libyan tensions spill over the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who claim Egypt was behind a mysterious series of airstrikes on Islamist militias in Libya last week \u2013 but the Egyptians themselves are not among them. &#8220;There is no truth to these baseless allegations,&#8221; Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry said in a terse statement on Sunday. Later in the afternoon, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi bluntly told a gathering of editors: &#8220;There are no Egyptian planes or troops in Libya.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But few would be shocked if there were. On Monday morning, most of Libya&#8217;s neighbours will meet in Cairo to discuss responses to the latest Libyan crisis, and few delegations will want as swift a resolution as Egypt&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/aug\/24\/egypt-concern-libya-tensions\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who claim Egypt was behind a mysterious series of airstrikes on Islamist militias in Libya last week \u2013 but the Egyptians themselves are not among them. &#8220;There is no truth to these baseless allegations,&#8221; Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry said in a terse statement on Sunday. Later in the afternoon, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi [&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":[3752,258,256,4697,415,3753,2684,4711,3754,257,4694,254],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel-fatah-al-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian-planes-or-troops-in-libya","tag-islamist-militias","tag-libya","tag-libyan-crisis","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","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=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/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=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}