{"id":210039,"date":"2025-10-16T12:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-accuses-egypt-of-colonial-era-mindset-says-cairos-threats-undermine-nile-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:18:24","slug":"ethiopia-accuses-egypt-of-colonial-era-mindset-says-cairos-threats-undermine-nile-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-accuses-egypt-of-colonial-era-mindset-says-cairos-threats-undermine-nile-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Accuses Egypt of &#8216;Colonial-Era Mindset,&#8217; Says Cairo&#8217;s Threats Undermine Nile Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Water and Energy has accused Egypt of intensifying &#8220;hostile rhetoric&#8221; over the Nile River and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), warning that Cairo&#8217;s &#8220;colonial-era mindset&#8221; threatens regional cooperation among Nile Basin countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/100069139872873\/posts\/1118615317119787\/?rdid=IVdVvsyPZqzYygu0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, issued on Monday, following remarks by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday, who warned that Egypt &#8220;will not stand with its hands tied&#8221; in the face of Ethiopia&#8217;s &#8220;irresponsible approach&#8221; and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510140266.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 Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Water and Energy has accused Egypt of intensifying &#8220;hostile rhetoric&#8221; over the Nile River and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), warning that Cairo&#8217;s &#8220;colonial-era mindset&#8221; threatens regional cooperation among Nile Basin countries. The statement, issued on Monday, following remarks by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday, who warned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":210040,"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":[5070,258,256,32602,12770,6454,4697,415,4716,10533,257,4162,254,7611,9829],"class_list":["post-210039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairos","tag-colonialera","tag-cooperation","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-mindset","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats","tag-undermine"],"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\/210039","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=210039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}