{"id":241509,"date":"2026-08-19T19:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-u-s-signals-readiness-to-resume-gerd-mediation-as-nile-dispute-persists\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:44:01","slug":"ethiopia-u-s-signals-readiness-to-resume-gerd-mediation-as-nile-dispute-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-u-s-signals-readiness-to-resume-gerd-mediation-as-nile-dispute-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: U.S. Signals Readiness to Resume GERD Mediation As Nile Dispute Persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Addis Abeba \u2014 The United States is ready to resume mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump has said, signalling a renewed diplomatic effort to resolve the long-running dispute over the use and management of Nile waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/washington-ready-to-resume-meditating-gerd-dispute-trump-advisor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Massad Boulos<\/a>, senior adviser to Trump on African affairs, said Washington was prepared to facilitate the resumption of talks between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan and provide technical&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608190601.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 The United States is ready to resume mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump has said, signalling a renewed diplomatic effort to resolve the long-running dispute over the use and management of Nile waters. Massad Boulos, senior adviser to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241510,"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":[258,256,9424,415,4716,2767,16024,257,4162,20570,6382,7983,10503,254,2282],"class_list":["post-241509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dispute","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-mediation","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-persists","tag-readiness","tag-resume","tag-signals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"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\/241509","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=241509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}