{"id":453479,"date":"2023-07-07T05:20:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=453479"},"modified":"2023-07-07T05:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:20:59","slug":"ethiopian-to-postpone-gerd-dam-filling-for-2-months-to-ease-egyptian-sudanese-concerns-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/453479","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian to postpone GERD dam filling for 2 months to ease Egyptian, Sudanese concerns: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday said Ethiopia will postpone the water filling of the 5,250 Mega-Watts (MW) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project for two months to ease Egyptian and Sudanese concerns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presenting the 2022\/2023 end of year report to the Ethiopian parliament, Abiy said the scheduled filling of the GERD reservoir which was supposed to happen this month will be postponed until mid-September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abiy told parliamentarians the decision was taken to address the concern of the lower riparian Nile basin countries, Egypt and Sudan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ethiopian Prime Minister further said the water filling for the mega hydro dam project will be done in a manner that doesn\u2019t reduce water from Ethiopia, but also at the same time responds to the wants of Sudan and Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven though we received extensive rainfall this season, we\u2019re undertaking this action so our brothers won\u2019t get distressed, obtain what they merit and for them to understand Ethiopia\u2019s only wish is to develop in a responsible way,\u201d PM Abiy said in parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopia started construction on the 5,250 MW GERD dam in April 2011 in the country\u2019s western Benishangul-Gumuz region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hydro dam project which Ethiopian government claims is currently more than 90 percent complete has aroused concerns from Sudan and Egypt that it may reduce their resprctive Nile river basin water shares. Around 86 percent of all Nile river basin waters originate in Ethiopia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday said Ethiopia will postpone the water filling of the 5,250 Mega-Watts (MW) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project for two months to ease Egyptian and Sudanese concerns.\u00a0 Presenting the 2022\/2023 end of year report to the Ethiopian parliament, Abiy said the scheduled filling of the GERD reservoir which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":453480,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-453479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/abiy.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1TYb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453479","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453481,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453479\/revisions\/453481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}