{"id":210721,"date":"2025-10-22T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-former-u-s-diplomat-urges-egypt-to-prioritize-technical-dialogue-with-ethiopia-over-political-drama\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:30:00","slug":"egypt-former-u-s-diplomat-urges-egypt-to-prioritize-technical-dialogue-with-ethiopia-over-political-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-former-u-s-diplomat-urges-egypt-to-prioritize-technical-dialogue-with-ethiopia-over-political-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Former U.S. Diplomat Urges Egypt to Prioritize Technical Dialogue With Ethiopia Over Political Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Ambassador Tibor Nagy, a seasoned American diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, has urged Egypt to abandon its political posturing and instead engage Ethiopia constructively on technical matters related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In a strongly worded public statement posted on his X page, Nagy criticized Egypt&#8217;s approach to the dam, warning that attempts to pressure or isolate Ethiopia are counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;I know from experience that Ethiopia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510200026.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 Ababa \u2014 Ambassador Tibor Nagy, a seasoned American diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, has urged Egypt to abandon its political posturing and instead engage Ethiopia constructively on technical matters related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In a strongly worded public statement posted on his X page, Nagy criticized Egypt&#8217;s approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":210722,"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":[258,256,6688,12456,10335,4697,415,4716,257,6378,11987,254,7233,2282,6810],"class_list":["post-210721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dialogue","tag-diplomat","tag-drama","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-news","tag-political","tag-prioritize","tag-south-africa-today","tag-technical","tag-u-s","tag-urges"],"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\/210721","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=210721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}