{"id":276577,"date":"2019-05-20T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMjEvZXUtaG9ybi1vZi1hZnJpY2EtbW9naGVyaW5pLXZpc2l0cy1zb21hbGlhLWtlbnlhLWRqaWJvdXRpLWV0aGlvcGlhL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:26","slug":"eu-foreign-policy-chief-federica-mogherini-began-a-horn-tour-through-somalia-kenya-djibouti-and-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276577","title":{"rendered":"EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini began a Horn tour through Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Africanews reported that European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini started a three-day Horn of Africa visit covering Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-493684\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini began a Horn tour through Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>EU tours of the Horn usually mix security cooperation, migration control, Red Sea shipping interests, and development money. Stopping in four capitals in three days is a signal that Brussels wanted a regional package rather than only bilateral photo ops.<\/p>\n<p>For Ethiopian readers the visit sat beside Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform branding and beside Djibouti\u2019s role as the main port for Ethiopian trade.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as Red Sea and Horn geopolitics archive, the Mogherini itinerary dates a concrete EU diplomatic circuit through the corridor that links Ethiopia to the sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/21\/eu-horn-of-africa-mogherini-visits-somalia-kenya-djibouti-ethiopia\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU \u2013 Horn of Africa: Mogherini visits Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews in EnglishThe European Union, EU, High Representative for Foreign Policy \/ Vice President, Federica Mogherini, on Monday (May 20) started her three-day visit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":493684,"comment_status":"closed","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-276577","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\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=460%2C438&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19WV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276577","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754837,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276577\/revisions\/754837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}