{"id":245622,"date":"2026-09-26T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-says-it-backs-south-sudans-fula-dam-after-review-renews-objections-to-ethiopias-gerd\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:30:18","slug":"egypt-says-it-backs-south-sudans-fula-dam-after-review-renews-objections-to-ethiopias-gerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-says-it-backs-south-sudans-fula-dam-after-review-renews-objections-to-ethiopias-gerd\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Says It Backs South Sudan&#8217;s Fula Dam After Review, Renews Objections to Ethiopia&#8217;s GERD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Egypt has agreed to South Sudan&#8217;s planned Grand Fula Dam after reviewing technical studies on the project, Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam said, as Cairo simultaneously reiterated its objections to Ethiopia&#8217;s unilateral operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Sewilam made the remarks on Sunday during a media briefing organized by Egypt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sis.gov.eg\/en\/media-center\/news\/minister-of-water-resources-and-irrigation-briefs-foreign-correspondents-at-the-state-information-service-organized-meeting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Information Service (SIS)<\/a> for more than 80 foreign correspondents in Cairo. The briefing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609210242.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 Egypt has agreed to South Sudan&#8217;s planned Grand Fula Dam after reviewing technical studies on the project, Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam said, as Cairo simultaneously reiterated its objections to Ethiopia&#8217;s unilateral operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Sewilam made the remarks on Sunday during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245623,"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":[258,256,7102,7146,4697,415,7144,18601,2767,257,35336,7307,6399,5069,254,8105],"class_list":["post-245622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-dam","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopias","tag-fula","tag-gerd","tag-news","tag-objections","tag-renews","tag-review","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudans"],"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\/245622","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=245622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}