{"id":273904,"date":"2019-04-23T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV6ZWdhLmNvbS9OZXdzL05ld3NEZXRhaWxzLzcwNzEvQ2hhbmdlcy1pbi1TdWRhbi13aWxsLW5vdC1BZmZlY3QtR0VSRC1FdGhpb3BpYW4tTWluaXN0cnnSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:54","slug":"ethiopia-said-sudans-upheaval-would-not-derail-gerd-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273904","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia said Sudan\u2019s upheaval would not derail GERD talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 23 April 2019, Ethiopia\u2019s Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy told Ezega it was not worried that political change in <strong>Sudan<\/strong> would disrupt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam negotiations.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-358366\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GERD-1.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia said Sudan\u2019s upheaval would not derail GERD talks\" \/>\n<p>The reassurance came as Khartoum\u2019s transition looked chaotic and GERD remained the Horn\u2019s hardest water bargain, with Egypt watching every statement. Official calm is itself a diplomatic instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years mixed dam nationalism with regional peacemaker branding. Saying Sudan\u2019s street politics would not touch the dam was meant to freeze the technical track while governments shook.<\/p>\n<p>For Nile geopolitics readers, the quote is a timestamp. GERD timelines slipped, Sudan\u2019s war later exploded, and the fiction that hydropolitics can ignore state collapse got harder to sell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ezega.com\/News\/NewsDetails\/7071\/Changes-in-Sudan-will-not-Affect-GERD-Ethiopian-Ministry\">Ezega<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in Sudan will not Affect GERD &#8211; Ethiopian Ministry&nbsp;&nbsp;EzegaApril 23, 2019 (Ezega.com) &#8212; The Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy said today that it is not concerned with the change taking place in Sudan,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":358366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GERD-1.jpg?fit=284%2C177&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601061,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273904\/revisions\/601061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}