{"id":203672,"date":"2025-07-31T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-pm-apologizes-for-giza-power-outage-orders-emergency-plans\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:20:54","slug":"egypt-pm-apologizes-for-giza-power-outage-orders-emergency-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-pm-apologizes-for-giza-power-outage-orders-emergency-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: PM Apologizes for Giza Power Outage, Orders Emergency Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli apologized to residents in Giza for the extended power outage caused by a failure at the Geziret el Dahab substation. The blackout disrupted electricity and water supplies during an intense heat wave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">At a press conference following the weekly Cabinet meeting, Madbouli stated that the station&#8217;s power cables were overloaded beyond design limits for prolonged periods, leading to the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He also directed relevant ministries to prepare emergency response plans for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507310028.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>Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli apologized to residents in Giza for the extended power outage caused by a failure at the Geziret el Dahab substation. The blackout disrupted electricity and water supplies during an intense heat wave. At a press conference following the weekly Cabinet meeting, Madbouli stated that the station&#8217;s power cables were overloaded beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203673,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,18940,4697,415,6990,48667,257,6186,21058,5212,7047,254],"class_list":["post-203672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apologizes","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-emergency","tag-giza","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-outage","tag-plans","tag-power","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\/203672","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=203672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}