{"id":333197,"date":"2020-10-05T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=333197"},"modified":"2020-10-05T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T09:45:07","slug":"ethiopian-govt-places-restriction-on-flights-over-nile-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/333197","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian gov&#8217;t places restriction on flights over Nile Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC) Ethiopia has banned flights in its airspace over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) for security reasons, according to The Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The director-general of Ethiopia&#8217;s civil aviation authority, Col Wesenyeleh Hunegnaw, told The Reporter that following consultations with relevant security organs, the airspace in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional state, where the dam is being built, is closed to all flights,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>He said no passenger or cargo planes will be allowed to fly over the dam, but permission could be issued on request.<\/p>\n<p>The air force commander, General Yilma Merdasa, warned last week that the air force had modernized its fighter jets and was capable of defending the dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC) Ethiopia has banned flights in its airspace over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) for security reasons, according to The Reporter. &#8220;The director-general of Ethiopia&#8217;s civil aviation authority, Col Wesenyeleh Hunegnaw, told The Reporter that following consultations with relevant security organs, the airspace in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional state, where the dam is being built, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333198,"comment_status":"open","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-333197","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\/2020\/10\/Nile-Dam.png?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1oG9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333197","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333199,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333197\/revisions\/333199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}