{"id":3079,"date":"2014-06-23T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T09:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T09:38:53","slug":"egyptian-broadcaster-suspended-after-live-row-with-ethiopia-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egyptian-broadcaster-suspended-after-live-row-with-ethiopia-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian broadcaster suspended after live row with Ethiopia ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian broadcaster,\u00a0Rania Badawy, has been suspended for arguing with Ethiopia&#8217;s ambassador to Cairo during a live TV phone-in about Addis Ababa&#8217;s ongoing Nile dam project.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Rania Badawy, a talk show host on the privately-owned Tahrir satellite channel, got into a heated argument with Ethiopian envoy Mahmoud Dardir over the Grand Renaissance Dam, a multi-billion hydroelectric dam that has been a source of contention between the two countries for over a year.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the six-minute-long call, Badawy asked the envoy if Addis Ababa insisted on pressing forward with the dam&#8217;s construction in its current form and capacity, which Egypt fears will harm its share of the Nile&#8217;s water.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador replied: &#8220;You do not understand about dams and are talking in a bumptious tone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Badawy then angrily told the ambassador he had &#8220;crossed his limits&#8221; and that he should not &#8220;characterise [her] talk or speak to [her] about arrogance&#8221;. She then thanked him and abruptly ended the call, as his voice trailed off in an attempt to reply&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ethiopia News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/104417\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Egyptian-anchorwoman-suspended-after-live-row-with.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Ethiopia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/\">Ethiopia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian broadcaster,\u00a0Rania Badawy, has been suspended for arguing with Ethiopia&#8217;s ambassador to Cairo during a live TV phone-in about Addis Ababa&#8217;s ongoing Nile dam project. On Wednesday, Rania Badawy, a talk show host on the privately-owned Tahrir satellite channel, got into a heated argument with Ethiopian envoy Mahmoud Dardir over the Grand Renaissance Dam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,1298],"tags":[296,258,256,4695,4697,1503,415,4716,1299,1497,1499,1501,1500,257,1496,4694,1502,1495,254,1498],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-ethiopia","tag-addis-ababa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-fears-will-harm-its-share-of-the-niles-water","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-ethiopias-ambassador-to-cairo","tag-ethiopian-envoy-mahmoud-dardir","tag-grand-renaissance-dam","tag-mahmoud-dardir","tag-news","tag-nile-dam-project","tag-north-africa","tag-pressing-forward-with-the-dams-construction","tag-rania-badawy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tahrir-satellite-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}