{"id":204435,"date":"2025-08-11T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-egypt-scrambling-to-create-obstacles-ahead-of-gerd-inauguration-electric-power-ceo\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:42:59","slug":"ethiopia-egypt-scrambling-to-create-obstacles-ahead-of-gerd-inauguration-electric-power-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-egypt-scrambling-to-create-obstacles-ahead-of-gerd-inauguration-electric-power-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Egypt &#8216;Scrambling to Create Obstacles&#8217; Ahead of GERD Inauguration: Electric Power CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Egypt is &#8220;scrambling to create obstacles&#8221; following Ethiopia&#8217;s announcement that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is set to be inaugurated soon, according to Engineer Asheber Balcha, CEO of Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking at a press briefing held today at the Skylight Hotel in Addis Abeba, Eng. Asheber said that GERD and the Gibe III Hydroelectric Power Station were the largest contributors of electricity generated during the 2024\/25 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The GERD&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508070627.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 Egypt is &#8220;scrambling to create obstacles&#8221; following Ethiopia&#8217;s announcement that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is set to be inaugurated soon, according to Engineer Asheber Balcha, CEO of Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP). Speaking at a press briefing held today at the Skylight Hotel in Addis Abeba, Eng. Asheber said that GERD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204436,"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\/00451016:c9a225fbbb83abcafad61def126ab6bc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7019,7213,8268,4697,415,9416,4716,2767,5282,257,11269,7047,52076,254],"class_list":["post-204435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-ceo","tag-create","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-electric","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-inauguration","tag-news","tag-obstacles","tag-power","tag-scrambling","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00451016:c9a225fbbb83abcafad61def126ab6bc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204435","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=204435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}