{"id":3676,"date":"2014-07-06T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2014-07-06T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:27:12","slug":"djibouti-get-free-underground-water-from-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-get-free-underground-water-from-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti get free underground water from Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian legislators have ratified an agreement that will see neighbouring Djibouti drawing underground water from the country&#8217;s territory free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Last year on January 20, 2013 an agreement was made between Development minister Sufian Ahmed, and Djibouti&#8217;s Economy and Finance minister Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the parliament approved the plan on Thursday, debates had been made on what the Ethiopia has to gain by giving free water to Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>The accord gives all right to Djibouti to draw 103,000 metric cubes of underground water everyday for the next 30 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Djibouti News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbulletin.net\/news\/140068\/ethiopia-to-give-djibouti-free-underground-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian legislators have ratified an agreement that will see neighbouring Djibouti drawing underground water from the country&#8217;s territory free of charge. Last year on January 20, 2013 an agreement was made between Development minister Sufian Ahmed, and Djibouti&#8217;s Economy and Finance minister Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh. Even though the parliament approved the plan on Thursday, debates [&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":[567],"tags":[258,256,4701,568,4695,4716,2224,257,254,2223],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-free-water-to-djibouti","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-underground-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","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=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/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=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}