{"id":201510,"date":"2025-07-03T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-false-claims-real-stakes-why-ethiopia-should-refute-trumps-recent-remarks-about-gerd\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:18:49","slug":"ethiopia-false-claims-real-stakes-why-ethiopia-should-refute-trumps-recent-remarks-about-gerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-false-claims-real-stakes-why-ethiopia-should-refute-trumps-recent-remarks-about-gerd\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: False Claims, Real Stakes &#8211; Why Ethiopia Should Refute Trump&#8217;s Recent Remarks About GERD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"96\">Addis Abeba \u2014 In a recent and provocative statement, U.S. President Donald Trump falsely claimed that &#8220;America funded the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)&#8221; and that the dam &#8220;has cut off water from the Nile River&#8221; and &#8220;reduced Egypt&#8217;s water supply.&#8221; In a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114717932061341718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth Social<\/a>, Trump wrote, &#8220;&#8230;..I won&#8217;t get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping peace between Egypt and Ethiopia (a massive Ethiopian-built dam, stupidly financed by the United States of America, substantially reduces the water flowing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507020394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 In a recent and provocative statement, U.S. President Donald Trump falsely claimed that &#8220;America funded the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)&#8221; and that the dam &#8220;has cut off water from the Nile River&#8221; and &#8220;reduced Egypt&#8217;s water supply.&#8221; In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, &#8220;&#8230;..I won&#8217;t get a Nobel Peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00321360:620d7fe9d6498e023990d45986198cd9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,8117,415,4716,7556,2767,257,6884,37859,9469,254,13470,9387],"class_list":["post-201510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-false","tag-gerd","tag-news","tag-real","tag-refute","tag-remarks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakes","tag-trumps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00321360:620d7fe9d6498e023990d45986198cd9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201510","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=201510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}