{"id":12958,"date":"2018-08-27T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12958"},"modified":"2018-08-27T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:29:52","slug":"will-the-largest-dam-in-africa-ever-be-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12958","title":{"rendered":"Will the largest dam in Africa ever be completed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"83\">\n<p>The Grand Renaissance Dam being built by Ethiopia along the Nile is slated to be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa upon its completion.<\/p>\n<p>But the multi-billion dollar project, which Ethiopia says is vital for its future economy, has been dogged by disputes and delays.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt and Sudan also rely on the river Nile.<\/p>\n<p>Although\u00a0<span>Ethiopian leaders deny the dam will cause water shortages, farmers in Egypt fear they will have less water to irrigate their fields.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talks between the countries have been deadlocked for months, and leaders have vowed to iron out their differences peacefully.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Elizabeth Puranam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Kaldas &#8211; TIMEP political analysis<\/p>\n<p>Yohannes Gedamu &#8211; political science lecturer, Georgia Gwinnett College<\/p>\n<p>Harry Verhoeven &#8211; professor of government, Georgetown University<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Renaissance Dam being built by Ethiopia along the Nile is slated to be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa upon its completion. But the multi-billion dollar project, which Ethiopia says is vital for its future economy, has been dogged by disputes and delays. Egypt and Sudan also rely on the river Nile.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}