{"id":192808,"date":"2025-03-04T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-from-nile-basin-initiative-to-the-commission\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:47:42","slug":"ethiopia-from-nile-basin-initiative-to-the-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-from-nile-basin-initiative-to-the-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: From Nile Basin Initiative to the Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Addis Ababa \u2014 The pressing need to accelerate the establishment of a Nile Basin Commission topped the issues at this year&#8217;s Nile Day celebrations on Feb. 22 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">President Taye Atskesilassie of Ethiopia, who was chief guest at the regional celebrations, led the chorus saying the Nile Basin countries should remain resolute in their commitment to cooperation and to work towards establishing a permanent Nile River organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;This organisation would provide a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503040447.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa \u2014 The pressing need to accelerate the establishment of a Nile Basin Commission topped the issues at this year&#8217;s Nile Day celebrations on Feb. 22 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. President Taye Atskesilassie of Ethiopia, who was chief guest at the regional celebrations, led the chorus saying the Nile Basin countries should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":192809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,9745,6274,4716,9890,257,4162,254,1613],"class_list":["post-192808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basin","tag-commission","tag-ethiopia","tag-initiative","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}