{"id":249010,"date":"2026-11-04T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-long-after-ethiopia-completes-gerd-egypt-sudan-invoke-nile-water-rights-under-colonial-era-agreement\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:30:08","slug":"ethiopia-long-after-ethiopia-completes-gerd-egypt-sudan-invoke-nile-water-rights-under-colonial-era-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-long-after-ethiopia-completes-gerd-egypt-sudan-invoke-nile-water-rights-under-colonial-era-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Long After Ethiopia Completes GERD, Egypt, Sudan Invoke Nile Water Rights Under Colonial-Era Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Egypt and Sudan have renewed their opposition to Ethiopia&#8217;s independent management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), invoking historical Nile water-sharing agreements and demanding a binding legal framework, more than a year after Ethiopia officially inaugurated the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The two countries reaffirmed their position in a joint statement issued on November 2 following the third round of their &#8220;2+2&#8221; consultation mechanism, bringing together foreign and irrigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611030630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 Egypt and Sudan have renewed their opposition to Ethiopia&#8217;s independent management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), invoking historical Nile water-sharing agreements and demanding a binding legal framework, more than a year after Ethiopia officially inaugurated the project. The two countries reaffirmed their position in a joint statement issued on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249011,"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":[784],"tags":[258,256,6423,12770,6222,4697,4716,2767,39277,9190,257,4162,5100,254,4708,1613,6722],"class_list":["post-249010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-colonialera","tag-completes","tag-egypt","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-invoke","tag-long","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-water"],"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\/249010","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=249010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}