{"id":276615,"date":"2019-05-21T04:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnBvbGl0aWNhbGFuYWx5c2lzLmNvLnphL3N1ZGFucy1wb3dlci1wdXJjaGFzZS1mcm9tLWV0aGlvcGlhLXN1c3BlbmRlZC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:34","slug":"ethiopia-suspended-electricity-sales-to-sudan-and-cut-supply-to-djibouti-during-the-power-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276615","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia suspended electricity sales to Sudan and cut supply to Djibouti during the power crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Political Analysis South Africa reported that a senior Ethiopian official said the country was suspending electricity sales to Sudan and reducing power shipped to Djibouti while domestic supply was under strain.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia suspended electricity sales to Sudan and cut supply to Djibouti during the power crunch\" \/>\n<p>Export contracts are a point of pride when reservoirs are full. When hydropower falls, neighbors feel the shortage almost as quickly as Ethiopian factories do, and Red Sea port logistics in Djibouti can feel the voltage politics too.<\/p>\n<p>The notice sits inside the same 2019 rationing season that hit homes and industry after water levels dropped at major dams.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as Horn energy geopolitics archive, the Sudan and Djibouti cuts date how Ethiopia\u2019s internal power deficit spilled across borders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicalanalysis.co.za\/sudans-power-purchase-from-ethiopia-suspended\/\">Political Analysis South Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s power purchase from Ethiopia suspended&nbsp;&nbsp;Political Analysis South AfricaEthiopia is suspending the sale of electricity to neighbouring Sudan and reducing power supply to Djibouti, a senior government official has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":277392,"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-276615","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\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=475%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276615","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=276615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754841,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276615\/revisions\/754841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}