{"id":195135,"date":"2025-04-01T22:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-gerd-resonates-with-pan-african-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:16:11","slug":"ethiopia-gerd-resonates-with-pan-african-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/ethiopia-gerd-resonates-with-pan-african-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: GERD Resonates With Pan-African Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is not just a national project for Ethiopia&#8211;it has broader implications for the entire African continent. As one of Africa&#8217;s largest infrastructure projects, GERD embodies the principles of Pan- Africanism by promoting economic self-reliance, regional cooperation, and shared prosperity, peace and economic integration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">GERD is 100% financed by the people of Ethiopia without reliance on foreign aid or loans, demonstrating Africa&#8217;s ability to fund and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504010394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is not just a national project for Ethiopia&#8211;it has broader implications for the entire African continent. As one of Africa&#8217;s largest infrastructure projects, GERD embodies the principles of Pan- Africanism by promoting economic self-reliance, regional cooperation, and shared prosperity, peace and economic integration. GERD is 100% financed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,568,4716,2767,7221,257,12715,51019,254],"class_list":["post-195135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-initiatives","tag-news","tag-panafrican","tag-resonates","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195135","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}