{"id":352546,"date":"2021-03-13T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T18:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=352546"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T18:37:43","slug":"gerd-could-obstruct-irrigation-and-navigation-in-sudan-and-egypt-current-au-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/352546","title":{"rendered":"GERD could obstruct irrigation and navigation in Sudan and Egypt &#8211; Current AU Chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current Chairperson of the African Union President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi of Democratic Republic of Congo said the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could obstruct irrigation and navigation in Sudan and Egypt. <\/p>\n<p>His suggestion on twitter came after a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on the Ethiopian massive dam being constructed on the Nile.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial suggestion, which was deleted later on, had been posted on the official twitter account of the president\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi early last month  asserted his country\u2019s keenness to strengthen relations and consolidate strategic cooperation with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during Felix Tshisekedi first appearance at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo on February 2, 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Chairperson of the African Union President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi of Democratic Republic of Congo said the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could obstruct irrigation and navigation in Sudan and Egypt. His suggestion on twitter came after a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on the Ethiopian massive dam being constructed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":352547,"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-352546","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\/03\/GERD.jpg?fit=299%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1tIe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352546","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352548,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352546\/revisions\/352548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}