{"id":37118,"date":"2026-06-15T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37118"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:35:12","slug":"somaliland-israel-holds-talks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/somaliland-israel-holds-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Somaliland, Israel holds talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Somaliland&#8217;s President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi over the weekend met his Israeli counterpart, President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was his first-ever state visit, which comes months after Israel officially recognised the breakaway African state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The visit focused on strengthening ties between the two countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This follows Tel Aviv&#8217;s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21787,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-37118","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Somaliland President met with Israeli leader"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37119,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37118\/revisions\/37119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}