{"id":240537,"date":"2026-08-07T07:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopias-historic-rise-is-shattering-cairos-campaign-of-hostility\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:17:05","slug":"ethiopias-historic-rise-is-shattering-cairos-campaign-of-hostility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopias-historic-rise-is-shattering-cairos-campaign-of-hostility\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s Historic Rise Is Shattering Cairo&#8217;s Campaign of Hostility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">Egypt&#8217;s approach to the Abay (Nile) River has been shaped by a doctrine of strategic dominance rather than equitable partnership. Successive governments in Cairo have sought to preserve a privileged position rooted in colonial-era arrangements that Ethiopia never accepted. From this perspective, a stronger, more self-reliant Ethiopia is not merely a neighboring state pursuing development. Evidently, the East African nation is confronting a regional order that Egypt has long sought to preserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060479.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Egypt&#8217;s approach to the Abay (Nile) River has been shaped by a doctrine of strategic dominance rather than equitable partnership. Successive governments in Cairo have sought to preserve a privileged position rooted in colonial-era arrangements that Ethiopia never accepted. From this perspective, a stronger, more self-reliant Ethiopia is not merely a neighboring state pursuing development. [&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":[338],"tags":[258,256,32602,4302,415,7144,13203,26358,257,10256,55079,254],"class_list":["post-240537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairos","tag-campaign","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopias","tag-historic","tag-hostility","tag-news","tag-rise","tag-shattering","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240537","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=240537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240537\/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=240537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}