{"id":241608,"date":"2026-08-20T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-must-abandon-monopolistic-abay-stance-recognize-ethiopias-rights-as-primary-source-geopolitics-expert\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:45:57","slug":"egypt-must-abandon-monopolistic-abay-stance-recognize-ethiopias-rights-as-primary-source-geopolitics-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-must-abandon-monopolistic-abay-stance-recognize-ethiopias-rights-as-primary-source-geopolitics-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Must Abandon Monopolistic Abay Stance, Recognize Ethiopia&#8217;s Rights As Primary Source &#8211; Geopolitics Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Egypt must abandon its long-standing posture of seeking exclusive control over Abay (the Nile) waters and recognize Ethiopia&#8217;s natural rights as the source of 86 percent of the river&#8217;s total volume, according to the geopolitician Elias Abiy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In an exclusive interview with ENA, Elias Abi, an expert in geopolitics and writer, highlighted that 135 million Ethiopians rely on these vital resources for their livelihoods and national development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The analyst stressed that Cairo&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608190329.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 Ababa \u2014 Egypt must abandon its long-standing posture of seeking exclusive control over Abay (the Nile) waters and recognize Ethiopia&#8217;s natural rights as the source of 86 percent of the river&#8217;s total volume, according to the geopolitician Elias Abiy. In an exclusive interview with ENA, Elias Abi, an expert in geopolitics and writer, highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241609,"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":[9192,49886,258,256,4697,415,7144,8957,19241,37622,257,7518,11021,5100,12486,254,8177],"class_list":["post-241608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abandon","tag-abay","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopias","tag-expert","tag-geopolitics","tag-monopolistic","tag-news","tag-primary","tag-recognize","tag-rights","tag-source","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stance"],"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\/241608","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=241608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}