{"id":288430,"date":"2025-10-15T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/?p=288430"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:09:10","slug":"ethiopia-responds-to-president-el-sisis-remarks-on-the-renaissance-dam-and-nile-waters-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/?p=288430","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia responds to President El-Sisi\u2019s remarks on the Renaissance Dam and Nile waters\u00a0 &#8211;  Middle East Monitor\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 15, 2025 at 8:58 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2233907804-scaled-e1760515081259.jpg?fit=920%2C613&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A general view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during its official inauguration ceremony in Guba, on September 9, 2025. [LUIS TATO\/AFP via Getty Images]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A general view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during its official inauguration ceremony in Guba, on September 9, 2025. [LUIS TATO\/AFP via Getty Images]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ethiopian government on Tuesday responded to recent comments made by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the Nile waters. The remarks were made during the opening session of Cairo Water Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement addressing the issue, the Ethiopian government said that it was closely following President El-Sisi\u2019s comments. It stressed that the Nile River originates in Ethiopia and that, under international law and the principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources, the country has a legitimate and non-negotiable right to use its own water resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement added that Ethiopia\u2019s use of the Nile aims to promote development for its people without causing any significant harm to neighbouring countries. It also pointed out that Ethiopians have suffered for more than a century while watching their water resources being used by others without receiving a fair share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethiopia further rejected what it called \u201ccolonial-era agreements,\u201d asserting that such treaties are neither legally nor politically binding on it, as the country was not a party to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to President El-Sisi\u2019s accusation that Addis Ababa had taken unilateral actions, the Ethiopian government firmly rejected the claim. It said the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project has been managed with full transparency, and that Ethiopia has regularly shared technical data on the dam\u2019s filling and operation with the downstream countries, Sudan and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 15, 2025 at 8:58 am A general view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during its official inauguration ceremony in Guba, on September 9, 2025. [LUIS TATO\/AFP via Getty Images] The Ethiopian government on Tuesday responded to recent comments made by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288431,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288430\/revisions\/288431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}