{"id":209719,"date":"2025-10-13T12:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-president-al-sisi-issues-stern-warning-to-ethiopia-over-nile-dam-dispute-vows-to-protect-water-security\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:12:42","slug":"egypts-president-al-sisi-issues-stern-warning-to-ethiopia-over-nile-dam-dispute-vows-to-protect-water-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-president-al-sisi-issues-stern-warning-to-ethiopia-over-nile-dam-dispute-vows-to-protect-water-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s President Al-Sisi Issues Stern Warning to Ethiopia Over Nile Dam Dispute, Vows to Protect Water Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\"><em>CAIRO, Egypt<\/em> &#8211; Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a stark warning to Ethiopia, accusing it of causing &#8220;significant harm&#8221; to downstream nations through its management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and declaring that Egypt will take &#8220;any and all necessary steps&#8221; to protect its vital water interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">In a televised address during the &#8220;Cairo Water Week&#8221; on Sunday, October 12, 2025, President al-Sisi escalated the long-running diplomatic conflict over the Nile waters. He&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510130156.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>CAIRO, Egypt &#8211; Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a stark warning to Ethiopia, accusing it of causing &#8220;significant harm&#8221; to downstream nations through its management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and declaring that Egypt will take &#8220;any and all necessary steps&#8221; to protect its vital water interests. In a televised address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":209720,"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":[258,256,15632,7146,9424,415,6989,4716,8008,257,4162,2450,6202,4586,254,8923,9639,7282,6722],"class_list":["post-209719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alsisi","tag-dam","tag-dispute","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-ethiopia","tag-issues","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-president","tag-protect","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stern","tag-vows","tag-warning","tag-water"],"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\/209719","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=209719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}