{"id":750,"date":"2025-12-11T05:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/?p=750"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:11:05","slug":"ethiopia-and-zambia-sign-defence-cooperation-agreement-to-boost-regional-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/ethiopia-and-zambia-sign-defence-cooperation-agreement-to-boost-regional-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and Zambia Sign Defence Cooperation Agreement to Boost Regional Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><\/a>AMN Plus -December 10\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia and Zambia have strengthened their longstanding ties with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation in Addis Ababa. The agreement expands collaboration in military training, education, intelligence exchange, and defence-industry development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Maambo Hamaundu, signed on behalf of Zambia, while Ethiopia was represented by State Minister of Defence, Marta Liwiji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both officials hailed the MoU as a milestone aligned with the two nations\u2019 shared vision for peace, stability and mutual development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The signing ceremony was witnessed by Zambia Army Commander Lieutenant General Geoffrey Choongo Zyeele, Deputy Ambassador Tom Michelo, senior defence-legal officers, and high-ranking members of the Ethiopian National Defence Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Zambian Embassy in Ethiopia, the new partnership builds on the warm and historic relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia supported Zambia\u2019s independence struggle in the 1960s, and the two nations later worked closely through the Organisation of African Unity\u2014now the African Union\u2014to promote continental peace, security, and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their cooperation has continued through political engagements, trade, regional peacekeeping, and sectoral partnerships in civil aviation, agriculture, and capacity-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopian Airlines remains a key strategic partner in Zambia\u2019s regional connectivity, reflecting the depth of bilateral ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defence Cooperation MoU marks a new chapter, reinforcing shared priorities in safeguarding regional stability, tackling emerging security challenges, and advancing the professional development of both armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Pulse of Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMN Plus -December 10\/2025 Ethiopia and Zambia have strengthened their longstanding ties with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation in Addis Ababa. The agreement expands collaboration in military training, education, intelligence exchange, and defence-industry development. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Maambo Hamaundu, signed on behalf of Zambia, while Ethiopia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}