{"id":1856,"date":"2026-01-04T03:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1856\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:40:13","slug":"ethiopia-pm-abiy-holds-phone-conversation-with-president-macron-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1856\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: PM Abiy Holds Phone Conversation With President Macron of France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed held a telephone conversation on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a social media post, the Prime Minister described the discussion as a warm New Year&#8217;s exchange, noting that the two leaders reviewed current and future areas of bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;A warm New Year&#8217;s exchange with my good friend, President Emmanuel Macron, over the phone earlier today. As we continue to strengthen our relations, we explored our current and future areas of bilateral cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The leaders also agreed to maintain close communication on regional and global issues of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;We also agreed to keep each other informed on regional and global matters of mutual interest,&#8221; PM Abiy underlined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed held a telephone conversation on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron. In a social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[63,83,265,321,262,65,268,96,261,264,263,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-1856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopia","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-events","11":"tag-east-africa","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-ethiopia","14":"tag-governance","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-trade","19":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}