{"id":269264,"date":"2019-03-13T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=269264"},"modified":"2019-03-13T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:48:50","slug":"france-to-help-landlocked-ethiopia-build-a-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/269264","title":{"rendered":"France to help landlocked Ethiopia build a navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and France signed a military cooperation agreement on Tuesday. The accord between both countries is the first in history.<\/p>\n<p>The military agreement stipulates that France will help the landlocked country to build a navy.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia and France signed the agreement during President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s visit to Addis Ababa. The French leader is on a four-day visit to the Horn of Africa region. France is looking to work with countries in the region, and President Macron hopes to change his country&#8217;s colonial legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This unprecedented defense cooperation agreement provides a framework&#8230; and notably opens the way for France to assist in establishing an Ethiopian naval component.&#8221; Macron said while standing next to Ethiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/ethiopia-and-france-sign-military-deal-turn-new-page-in-ties-11338014\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and France signed a military cooperation agreement on Tuesday. The accord between both countries is the first in history. The military agreement stipulates that France will help the landlocked country to build a navy. Ethiopia and France signed the agreement during President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s visit to Addis Ababa. The French leader is on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":269268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/21205aaaecf0ae37-19c67.jpg?fit=520%2C395&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-182Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269269,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269264\/revisions\/269269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}