{"id":400503,"date":"2020-09-04T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400503"},"modified":"2020-09-04T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:45:39","slug":"us-suspends-aid-to-ethiopia-over-blue-nile-dam-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/us-suspends-aid-to-ethiopia-over-blue-nile-dam-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"US suspends aid to Ethiopia over Blue Nile dam dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S(SONNA<\/strong>)-The United States has suspended a portion of its financial aid to Ethiopia over the lack of progress in talks with Egypt and Sudan about a massive dam Addis Ababa is constructing on the Blue Nile River.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been locked in a bitter dispute over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which remains unresolved although the reservoir behind the dam began filling in July.<\/p>\n

A US Department of State spokesperson told The Associated Press news agency on Tuesday that the decision to “temporarily pause” some aid to a key regional security ally “reflects our concern about Ethiopia’s unilateral decision to begin to fill the dam before an agreement and all necessary dam safety measures were in place”.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia considers the hydropower dam essential for its electrification and development but downstream Egypt and Sudan\u00a0view it as a serious threat to vital water supplies.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear how many millions of dollars in US aid are being cut, or for how long, but a congressional source told Reuters news agency: “Up to $100m or so will be affected, of which $26m is funding that expires at the end of the [financial year].”<\/p>\n

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U.S(SONNA)-The United States has suspended a portion of its financial aid to Ethiopia over the lack of progress in talks with Egypt and Sudan about a massive dam Addis Ababa is constructing on the Blue Nile River. Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been locked in a bitter dispute over the filling and operation of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400505,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400503\/revisions\/400505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}