{"id":244794,"date":"2026-09-18T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-stereotype-of-nile-basin-countries-more-harmful-than-effective-senior-researcher\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:30:11","slug":"egypts-stereotype-of-nile-basin-countries-more-harmful-than-effective-senior-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-stereotype-of-nile-basin-countries-more-harmful-than-effective-senior-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Stereotype of Nile Basin Countries More Harmful Than Effective &#8211; Senior Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Addis Ababa \u2014 The Egyptian political instrumentalization of the Nile and the portrayal of Nile Basin countries as a stereotype have fostered negative public perceptions in Egypt toward basin countries in general, and Ethiopia in particular, a senior researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies and Integration Initiative, Abdushakur Abdussamad, told ENA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;This portrayal, instrumentalization, intense media use, and heavy media campaigns are ultimately more harmful to the Egyptian public than&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609180045.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 The Egyptian political instrumentalization of the Nile and the portrayal of Nile Basin countries as a stereotype have fostered negative public perceptions in Egypt toward basin countries in general, and Ethiopia in particular, a senior researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies and Integration Initiative, Abdushakur Abdussamad, told ENA. &#8220;This portrayal, instrumentalization, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":244795,"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":[258,256,9745,6507,19798,415,6989,12629,257,4162,29610,6468,254,19615],"class_list":["post-244794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basin","tag-countries","tag-effective","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-harmful","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-researcher","tag-senior","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stereotype"],"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\/244794","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=244794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}