{"id":13755,"date":"2020-09-14T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/09\/14\/politics-of-water-difficult-talks-continue-on-africas-largest-dam\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:04:13","slug":"politics-of-water-difficult-talks-continue-on-africas-largest-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/09\/14\/politics-of-water-difficult-talks-continue-on-africas-largest-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics of water: Difficult talks continue on Africa&rsquo;s largest dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Africa&rsquo;s\u00a0largest hydroelectric dam nears completion, there are fears that Ethiopia will control too much of north-east Africa&rsquo;s water.\u00a0Around 90 percent of water flowing into the River Nile passes through Ethiopia and the dam raises fears about the water supply for Sudan and Egypt downstream. Ethiopia, where 65 million people live\u00a0without electricity, is set to benefit.\u00a0This Monday the parties are meeting again to continue 10 years of difficult talks in a bid\u00a0to reach an agreement.\u00a0We spoke to Ashok Swain, UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation from Uppsala University.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Africa&rsquo;s\u00a0largest hydroelectric dam nears completion, there are fears that Ethiopia will control too much of north-east Africa&rsquo;s water.\u00a0Around 90 percent of water flowing into the River Nile passes through Ethiopia and the dam raises fears about the water supply for Sudan and Egypt downstream. Ethiopia, where 65 million people live\u00a0without electricity, is set to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-13755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}