{"id":209054,"date":"2025-10-06T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/egypt-gerd-prevented-historic-destruction-in-sudan-egypt-ethiopia-asserts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:36:53","slug":"egypt-gerd-prevented-historic-destruction-in-sudan-egypt-ethiopia-asserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/egypt-gerd-prevented-historic-destruction-in-sudan-egypt-ethiopia-asserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: GERD Prevented &#8216;Historic Destruction&#8217; in Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia Asserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia has dismissed accusations made by the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), calling them <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/moweethiopia\/posts\/pfbid02TAngQkEwCmffjHPGNr5BKuGfqu98NLYf4kD4u9LxSvVuwiuAjwfwaGV55Jr1MMUEl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;falsehoods&#8221; and &#8220;misrepresentations.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">In a statement released today, 4 October 2025, by its Ministry of Water and Energy, Ethiopian authorities said that &#8220;heavy rainfall in recent months would have caused historical destruction in Sudan and Egypt had the GERD not been in place.&#8221; They argued that regulated water flow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060064.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>Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia has dismissed accusations made by the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), calling them &#8220;falsehoods&#8221; and &#8220;misrepresentations.&#8221; In a statement released today, 4 October 2025, by its Ministry of Water and Energy, Ethiopian authorities said that &#8220;heavy rainfall in recent months would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":209055,"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\/00670789:405716e20a697bcdbf3014bcc52489f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,10669,15372,4697,4716,2767,13203,257,18587,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-209054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asserts","tag-destruction","tag-egypt","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-historic","tag-news","tag-prevented","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670789:405716e20a697bcdbf3014bcc52489f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209054","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=209054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}