{"id":240571,"date":"2026-08-07T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-rejects-egypts-latest-gerd-accusations-again-urges-return-to-negotiated-framework\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:17:59","slug":"ethiopia-rejects-egypts-latest-gerd-accusations-again-urges-return-to-negotiated-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-rejects-egypts-latest-gerd-accusations-again-urges-return-to-negotiated-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Rejects Egypt&#8217;s Latest GERD Accusations, Again Urges Return to Negotiated Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia&#8217;s Minister of Water and Energy, Habtamu Itefa, has dismissed Egypt&#8217;s &#8220;unfounded accusations&#8221; against the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), saying Cairo would benefit more from returning to negotiations under previously agreed frameworks than continuing unrealistic claims against the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In remarks reported by state affiliated broadcaster FMC on 28 July, Habtamu said the GERD, <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/tag\/gerd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widely described as a continental project<\/a> symbolizing African cooperation and <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060164.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>Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia&#8217;s Minister of Water and Energy, Habtamu Itefa, has dismissed Egypt&#8217;s &#8220;unfounded accusations&#8221; against the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), saying Cairo would benefit more from returning to negotiations under previously agreed frameworks than continuing unrealistic claims against the project. In remarks reported by state affiliated broadcaster FMC on 28 July, Habtamu [&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":[6562,258,256,415,6989,4716,8266,2767,5037,3245,257,8440,6656,254,6810],"class_list":["post-240571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-accusations","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-ethiopia","tag-framework","tag-gerd","tag-latest","tag-negotiated","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240571","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=240571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240571\/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=240571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}