{"id":20439,"date":"2026-01-13T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20439\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:41:20","slug":"israel-strengthens-diplomatic-ties-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20439\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Strengthens Diplomatic Ties with Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (<a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a>) Israel on Monday described Ethiopia as a \u201clong-term strategic partner\u201d and emphasized its intention to deepen relations following discussions between Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar and Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hadera Abera Admassu.<\/p>\n<p>Admassu arrived in Israel for a visit of unspecified length.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared on US social media platform X, Sa\u2019ar said the two leaders held a \u201cgreat meeting,\u201d noting that Tel Aviv aims to \u201cfurther strengthen ties\u201d with Addis Ababa. He added: \u201cWe discussed mutual challenges in our regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes as Ethiopia faces disputes with Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea over border conflicts, water security, and access to maritime routes.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has continued to operate and fill the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River without reaching an agreement with downstream nations Egypt and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The country has also sought access to the Red Sea for both commercial and military purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The trip follows Sa\u2019ar\u2019s recent visit to a breakaway region in Somalia bordering Ethiopia, which Israel recognized as a state in late December\u2014a move that drew widespread condemnation from Arab and Islamic countries.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1110590578\/Israel-Strengthens-Diplomatic-Ties-with-Ethiopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>MENAFN13012026000045017167ID1110590578<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p> Legal Disclaimer:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a> provides the<br \/>\n              information \u201cas is\u201d without warranty of any kind. We do not accept<br \/>\n              any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images,<br \/>\n              videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information<br \/>\n              contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright<br \/>\n              issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(MENAFN) Israel on Monday described Ethiopia as a \u201clong-term strategic partner\u201d and emphasized its intention to deepen relations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[65],"class_list":{"0":"post-20439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopia","8":"tag-ethiopia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439","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=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}