{"id":333986,"date":"2020-10-11T05:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T09:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=70fee1496fe977e931b03343ccbbddc2"},"modified":"2020-10-13T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T03:50:26","slug":"egypt-rules-out-military-confrontation-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/333986","title":{"rendered":"Egypt rules out military confrontation with Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamdi Bakhit, a member of the Egyptian parliamentary Defense and National Security Committee, told Al-Monitor that Ethiopia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/333197\">flight ban over the Nile dam project<\/a> is a mere stunt before the international community. Bakhit added that the ban is a preemptive threat aimed at accusing Egypt of having an intention to use military force to end the conflict. <\/p>\n<p>In accordance with Article 152 of the constitution, the Egyptian army needs the approval of the House of Representatives to declare war or send troops to combat missions outside the borders.<\/p>\n<p>Bakhit said, \u201cWhat prompted Ethiopia to take this decision is that it is living in a state of internal instability as it suffers from ethnic conflicts, and the regime is trying to mobilize internal public opinion around a national cause exemplified by the GERD.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ruled out that his country would resort to a military solution in the dam crisis. He said July 28 that the military option is not a solution to this dispute and that negotiations are the only way to resolve the crisis. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/10\/egypt-ethiopia-gerd-conflict-ban-flights-negotiations.html\" >CONTINUE READING<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamdi Bakhit, a member of the Egyptian parliamentary Defense and National Security Committee, told Al-Monitor that Ethiopia\u2019s flight ban over the Nile dam project is a mere stunt before the international community. Bakhit added that the ban is a preemptive threat aimed at accusing Egypt of having an intention to use military force to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334303,"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-333986","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\/Al-Sisi.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1oSS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333986","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=333986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334304,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333986\/revisions\/334304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}