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In the lexicon of international diplomacy, few phrases are as overused and under-enforced as the “red line”. Yet, this week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty chose to dust off this tired rhetoric with a significant escalation.<\/p>\n
Moving beyond the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Cairo has now issued a sweeping warning against any future attempts by Ethiopia to build additional dams, explicitly threatening a “decisive response” to such sovereign development.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> In the lexicon of international diplomacy, few phrases are as overused and under-enforced as the “red line”. Yet, this week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty chose to dust off this tired rhetoric with a significant escalation. Moving beyond the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Cairo has now issued a sweeping warning against any future attempts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219337,"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":[258,256,32602,415,4716,7144,53326,6393,13455,18541,257,10722,254,864],"class_list":["post-219336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairos","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopias","tag-fallacy","tag-legal","tag-lines","tag-negotiation","tag-news","tag-red","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty"],"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\/219336","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=219336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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