{"id":206804,"date":"2025-09-11T06:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-no-country-should-be-denied-opportunity-to-unlock-huge-resource-like-gerd-pres-ruto\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:32:06","slug":"ethiopia-no-country-should-be-denied-opportunity-to-unlock-huge-resource-like-gerd-pres-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-no-country-should-be-denied-opportunity-to-unlock-huge-resource-like-gerd-pres-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: No Country Should Be Denied Opportunity to Unlock Huge Resource Like GERD &#8211; Pres. Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Addis Ababa \u2014 &#8220;We believe that no country should be denied the opportunity to unlock a huge resource like the one that we are launching,&#8221; Kenyan President Ruto reaffirmed during the auspicious inaugural ceremony of Africa&#8217;s largest hydroelectric dam Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">The inauguration ceremony was attended by Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of Djibouti, Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100094.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa \u2014 &#8220;We believe that no country should be denied the opportunity to unlock a huge resource like the one that we are launching,&#8221; Kenyan President Ruto reaffirmed during the auspicious inaugural ceremony of Africa&#8217;s largest hydroelectric dam Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The inauguration ceremony was attended by Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, President of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206805,"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\/00671385:9e289f42a517b3ea6cc20299fef0bf61:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5042,7634,4716,2767,8409,430,257,9107,6911,7256,11238,254,19587],"class_list":["post-206804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-country","tag-denied","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-huge","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-opportunity","tag-pres","tag-resource","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unlock"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671385:9e289f42a517b3ea6cc20299fef0bf61:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206804","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}