{"id":292943,"date":"2019-11-07T07:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=0ab935c8797f03ed39459fbdc82a380b"},"modified":"2019-11-07T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T23:31:03","slug":"head-of-u-s-africa-command-meets-with-ethiopian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/292943","title":{"rendered":"Head of U.S. Africa Command meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, culminated a multi-country East Africa regional visit in Ethiopia, where he met with Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed and General Berhanu Jula, Deputy Chief of Staff &#038; Head of the Military Operations Division of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) on 6 November.<\/p>\n<p>During his meeting with Prime Minister Abiy, he discussed security cooperation endeavors with Ethiopia, African Union missions, and long-term stability in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthiopia plays a critical and significant leadership role in the region, and across the continent,\u201d said Townsend. \u201cIt has taken the initiative with effective counter-terrorism and peacekeeping operations. These efforts, along with their willingness to develop and enhance security capabilities, have helped create a safer region.\u201d [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenceweb.co.za\/joint\/diplomacy-a-peace\/africom-commander-meets-with-ethiopian-prime-minister\/\" >CONTINUE READING<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/General-Townsend-and-PM-Abiy-Ahmed-meeting.jpg?resize=360%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-292984\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICOM Commander meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister&nbsp;&nbsp;defenceWeb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292983,"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-292943","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\/11\/General-Townsend-and-PM-Abiy.jpg?fit=360%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ecT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292943","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292985,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292943\/revisions\/292985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}