{"id":201598,"date":"2025-07-04T02:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-gerd-inauguration-scheduled-for-september-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T02:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:41:49","slug":"ethiopia-gerd-inauguration-scheduled-for-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-gerd-inauguration-scheduled-for-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: GERD Inauguration Scheduled for September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>PM extends invitations to leaders of Egypt, Sudan, other Nile riparian countries<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">After more than a decade of construction, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will be inaugurated in September 2025, according to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;As the rains subside in late September, we will inaugurate the dam and I would like to convey before Parliament the invitation to Egypt and Sudan and all the other Nile riparian countries,&#8221; he said during question time at Parliament today,<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Ethiopia has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030548.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>PM extends invitations to leaders of Egypt, Sudan, other Nile riparian countries After more than a decade of construction, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will be inaugurated in September 2025, according to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. &#8220;As the rains subside in late September, we will inaugurate the dam and I would like to convey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201599,"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":[784],"tags":[258,256,4716,2767,5282,257,18141,6587,254,1613],"class_list":["post-201598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-inauguration","tag-news","tag-scheduled","tag-september","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/201598","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=201598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}