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Addis Ababa \u2014 Egypt’s longstanding diplomatic and political conspiracy to block Ethiopia’s development projects on Abay River and isolate the country from the Red Sea are no longer effective, Water and Energy Minister Habtamu Itefa said.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview with ENA, the Minister said that Cairo should reconsider its historical posture toward Ethiopia regarding both the Abay (Blue Nile) River and access to the Red Sea instead of opposing Ethiopian interests.<\/p>\n
He recalled that Egypt had for…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Addis Ababa \u2014 Egypt’s longstanding diplomatic and political conspiracy to block Ethiopia’s development projects on Abay River and isolate the country from the Red Sea are no longer effective, Water and Energy Minister Habtamu Itefa said. In an exclusive interview with ENA, the Minister said that Cairo should reconsider its historical posture toward Ethiopia regarding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249695,"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":[49886,258,256,16852,415,6989,4716,7100,5941,257,10722,7263,10361,254,6722,32288],"class_list":["post-249694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abay","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conspiracy","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-ethiopia","tag-longer","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-red","tag-river","tag-sea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water","tag-workable"],"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\/249694","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=249694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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