{"id":1825,"date":"2026-07-28T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:04:08","slug":"us-and-ethiopia-pledge-deeper-military-ties-to-tackle-horn-of-africa-insurgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/us-and-ethiopia-pledge-deeper-military-ties-to-tackle-horn-of-africa-insurgency\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Ethiopia pledge deeper military ties to tackle Horn of Africa insurgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_02d87464b67cf218\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color md-content tutor-markdown-rendering\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-busy=\"false\" aria-live=\"off\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">By Andinet Enyew\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><em>Addis Ababa, (AMECO)<\/em> &#8211;<strong> The United States and Ethiopia have pledged to expand their military partnership, targeting rising security threats across East Africa during high-level talks in the capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">General Dagvin Anderson, head of US Africa Command (Africom), met with Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, chief of Ethiopia\u2019s national defence force, to align strategies against regional militant networks.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">Discussions centred on curbing extremist activities in neighbouring Somalia, specifically joint counter-insurgency operations directed at al-Shabaab and Isis cells.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">Moving past routine joint manoeuvres, Anderson highlighted plans to bolster institutional capacity across East African armed forces. He pointed to the co-hosted African Logistics and Communications Symposium in Addis Ababa as evidence of a shift toward broader structural and technological collaboration.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"10\">Major General Teshome Gemechu, lead director of foreign military relations for the Ethiopian forces, characterized the session as a constructive step forward for bilateral security cooperation.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"11\">US Ambassador to Ethiopia Ervin Massinga and senior defence delegates from both nations were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andinet Enyew\u00a0 Addis Ababa, (AMECO) &#8211; The United States and Ethiopia have pledged to expand their military partnership, targeting rising security threats across East Africa during high-level talks in the capital. General Dagvin Anderson, head of US Africa Command (Africom), met with Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, chief of Ethiopia\u2019s national defence force, to align [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[759,893,813,48,150,591,914],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}