(ahramonline)Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi ruled out military action to stop Ethiopia filling its controversial Blue Nile mega dam, during a visit to Qatar Thursday.<\/p>\n
There is no room to talk about the military option. We are now talking about political options,\u201d a- Mahdi told reporters in Doha. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin ever since Addis Ababa broke the ground on it in 2011.<\/p>\n
The comments came a day after Ethiopia said it would pres on the filling of the dam sparking warning from Sudan and Egypt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be a significant mobilization of global opinion \u2013the most important African opinion, especially in the neighboring countries and Nle Basin \u2013 to prevent Ethiopia from moving ahead with de-stabilizing the security of its significant neighbors, Egypt and Sudan,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(ahramonline)Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi ruled out military action to stop Ethiopia filling its controversial Blue Nile mega dam, during a visit to Qatar Thursday. There is no room to talk about the military option. We are now talking about political options,\u201d a- Mahdi told reporters in Doha. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":355943,"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-355942","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\/04\/Sudanese-FM.jpg?fit=460%2C275&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uB0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355942","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=355942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355944,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355942\/revisions\/355944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}