{"id":204738,"date":"2025-08-15T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-from-gerd-to-red-sea-ethiopias-strategic-future-amid-regional-power-politics-u-s-pressure\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:52:55","slug":"ethiopia-from-gerd-to-red-sea-ethiopias-strategic-future-amid-regional-power-politics-u-s-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-from-gerd-to-red-sea-ethiopias-strategic-future-amid-regional-power-politics-u-s-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: From GERD to Red Sea &#8211; Ethiopia&#8217;s Strategic Future Amid Regional Power Politics, U.S. Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Having begun construction nearly 14 years ago, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is scheduled for inauguration in September 2025. During a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/addisstandard\/status\/1940700843759600013\">parliamentary address<\/a> two months ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced this milestone and formally invited Egypt, Sudan, and all Nile Basin countries to attend the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Despite this progress, the GERD issue, which began as a technical disagreement over the shared management of water resources, has evolved into a complex&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508130296.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 Having begun construction nearly 14 years ago, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is scheduled for inauguration in September 2025. During a parliamentary address two months ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced this milestone and formally invited Egypt, Sudan, and all Nile Basin countries to attend the ceremony. Despite this progress, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204739,"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\/00670058:536d24cfe949c5170ac221fd57290361:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,415,4716,7144,5760,2767,257,6916,7047,15578,10722,4268,10361,254,8007,2282],"class_list":["post-204738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopias","tag-future","tag-gerd","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-pressure","tag-red","tag-regional","tag-sea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670058:536d24cfe949c5170ac221fd57290361:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204738","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=204738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}