{"id":239490,"date":"2026-07-25T19:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-water-expert-urges-binding-gerd-agreement-after-nile-levels-fall-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:35:55","slug":"sudan-water-expert-urges-binding-gerd-agreement-after-nile-levels-fall-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-water-expert-urges-binding-gerd-agreement-after-nile-levels-fall-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Water Expert Urges Binding GERD Agreement After Nile Levels Fall in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Amsterdam \/ Kampala \u2014 <em>A regional water resources expert has called for a legally binding agreement on the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), warning that the lack of coordination between Ethiopia and Sudan risks repeated water shortages, flooding, and damage to vital infrastructure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Dr Khaled El Nour Ali told Radio Dabanga that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/ethiopian-pm-says-sudan-eritrea-and-tplf-pose-no-threat-to-ethiopia#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan and Ethiopia<\/a> must strengthen the exchange of daily operational data and agree clear rules governing the dam&#8217;s management to protect Sudan&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230892.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam \/ Kampala \u2014 A regional water resources expert has called for a legally binding agreement on the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), warning that the lack of coordination between Ethiopia and Sudan risks repeated water shortages, flooding, and damage to vital infrastructure. Dr Khaled El Nour Ali told Radio Dabanga that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6423,33318,8957,9140,2767,8029,257,4162,254,4708,1613,6810,6722],"class_list":["post-239490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-binding","tag-expert","tag-fall","tag-gerd","tag-levels","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urges","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239490","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=239490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}