{"id":6892,"date":"2013-07-09T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T07:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2013-07-09T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T09:02:47","slug":"egypt-embassy-in-sa-country-safe-for-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6892","title":{"rendered":"Egypt embassy in SA: Country safe for travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egypttourism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6893\" alt=\"egypttourism\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egypttourism-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egypttourism-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egypttourism.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Egypt&#8217;s embassy in Pretoria says it is safe to travel to the North African nation, despite political upheaval after the ousting of its president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We would like to assure our travellers that Egypt is still safe to travel to and to visit,&#8221; spokesperson Amina Hatem said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All normal aspects of life including Egypt Air&#8217;s operations and international travel are safeguarded by the people and the authorities and remain perfectly functional as always.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The South African government earlier warned its citizens to be careful when travelling to the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Egyptian military toppled former president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, reportedly with the support of leaders from many sectors of Egyptian society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The constitution was suspended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa encouraged citizens to register online with Registration of South African\u00a0citizens Abroad when travelling to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The South African embassy in Egypt remains open and is available at all times to assist South African citizens, should circumstances require,&#8221; international relations spokesperson Clayson Monyela said. &#8211; SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s embassy in Pretoria says it is safe to travel to the North African nation, despite political upheaval after the ousting of its president. &#8220;We would like to assure our travellers that Egypt is still safe to travel to and to visit,&#8221; spokesperson Amina Hatem said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;All normal aspects of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Egypt embassy in SA: Country safe for travel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[3699,190,12250],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-coup","tag-egypt","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/egypttourism.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}