{"id":249430,"date":"2026-11-08T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-calls-for-hydro-diplomacy-on-shared-rivers-as-egypts-el-sisi-reiterates-water-security-is-a-red-line\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:30:10","slug":"ethiopia-calls-for-hydro-diplomacy-on-shared-rivers-as-egypts-el-sisi-reiterates-water-security-is-a-red-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ethiopia-calls-for-hydro-diplomacy-on-shared-rivers-as-egypts-el-sisi-reiterates-water-security-is-a-red-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Calls for Hydro-Diplomacy On Shared Rivers As Egypt&#8217;s El-Sisi Reiterates Water Security Is a &#8216;Red Line&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia has called for stronger regional cooperation and hydro-diplomacy over shared water resources, while Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi warned that Cairo would not accept any fait accompli that compromises its water security, highlighting the persistent divide between the two countries over the management of the Nile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The contrasting positions emerged as Ethiopia&#8217;s third Water and Energy Week opened on 26 October and El-Sisi addressed the ninth Cairo Water Week a day&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610270079.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 Ethiopia has called for stronger regional cooperation and hydro-diplomacy over shared water resources, while Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi warned that Cairo would not accept any fait accompli that compromises its water security, highlighting the persistent divide between the two countries over the management of the Nile. The contrasting positions emerged as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249431,"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":[258,256,6137,415,6989,11149,4716,55795,6402,257,10722,9502,7865,4586,6480,254,6722],"class_list":["post-249430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-elsisi","tag-ethiopia","tag-hydrodiplomacy","tag-line","tag-news","tag-red","tag-reiterates","tag-rivers","tag-security","tag-shared","tag-south-africa-today","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\/249430","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=249430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}