{"id":216255,"date":"2025-12-10T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-colonial-era-nile-narratives-no-longer-serve-egypts-interests-govt-official\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:24:54","slug":"egypt-colonial-era-nile-narratives-no-longer-serve-egypts-interests-govt-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-colonial-era-nile-narratives-no-longer-serve-egypts-interests-govt-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Colonial-Era Nile Narratives No Longer Serve Egypt&#8217;s Interests, Govt Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Addis Ababa \u2014 An Egyptian official&#8217;s recent hardline rhetoric on Nile water rights reflects an outdated colonial-era mindset, failing to align with modern realities of national interest, said a prominent Ethiopian government official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Interviewed by Pulse of Africa, a pan-African media outlet, Bikila Hurisa (PhD), a noted political figure and governance specialist, offered his reflections on Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty&#8217;s recent BBC comments regarding the 13-year negotiation process&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512100047.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Addis Ababa \u2014 An Egyptian official&#8217;s recent hardline rhetoric on Nile water rights reflects an outdated colonial-era mindset, failing to align with modern realities of national interest, said a prominent Ethiopian government official. Interviewed by Pulse of Africa, a pan-African media outlet, Bikila Hurisa (PhD), a noted political figure and governance specialist, offered his reflections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":216256,"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\/00610806:ddfd62df21de09eef709622cc7f4bf72:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,12770,4697,415,6989,4357,19892,7100,31679,257,4162,5092,12990,254],"class_list":["post-216255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-colonialera","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-govt","tag-interests","tag-longer","tag-narratives","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-official","tag-serve","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610806:ddfd62df21de09eef709622cc7f4bf72:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216255","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=216255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}