{"id":116865,"date":"2021-04-02T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T03:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116865"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T03:21:52","slug":"dr-congo-to-host-tripartite-talks-on-controversial-ethiopia-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116865","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo to host tripartite talks on controversial Ethiopia dam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/DR-Congo-to-host-tripartite-talks-on-controversial-Ethiopia-dam-1221685?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/254\/25438681.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo showing a part of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>File photo showing a part of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KINSHASA, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet in Kinshasa from Saturday April 3 for talks on the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, Democratic Republic of the Congo officials said.<br><br>The three-day meeting will be hosted by President Felix Tshisekedi, who took over the chair of the African Union last month, officials at the foreign ministry and presidency said.<br><br>The chairman of the AU\u2019s Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, is also expected to attend.<br><br>Egypt and Sudan earlier this month urged the DRC to steer efforts to relaunch negotiations on the contested GERD being built at a cost of $4.6bn.<br><br>The Nile, the world\u2019s longest river, is a lifeline supplying both water and electricity to the 10 countries it crosses.<br><br>Upstream Ethiopia says the hydroelectric power produced by the GERD will be vital to meet the energy needs of its 110 million people.<br><br>Egypt, which depends on the Nile for about 97 percent of its irrigation and drinking water, sees damming the Blue Nile as a threat to its existence.<br><br>Sudan, also downstream, fears its own dams will be compromised if Ethiopia proceeds with filling the GERD before a deal is reached.<br><br>On Tuesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi reiterated his country\u2019s concerns, saying, \u201cNobody will be permitted to take a single drop of Egypt\u2019s water, otherwise the region will fall into unimaginable instability.\u201d &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo showing a part of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project KINSHASA, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet in Kinshasa from Saturday April 3 for talks on the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, Democratic Republic of the Congo officials said. The three-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}