{"id":628,"date":"2025-12-01T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/?p=628"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:52:41","slug":"winners-of-the-3rd-igad-media-award-visit-gerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/winners-of-the-3rd-igad-media-award-visit-gerd\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 3rd IGAD Media Award Visit GERD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><\/a>AMN PLUS- December 1\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winning and participating journalists of the 3rd Eastern Africa Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Media Awards, which was held in Addis Ababa, have paid a visit to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Minister of Foreign Affairs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Hadera Abera; Deputy Executive Secretary of IGAD; Mohamed Abdi Ware; IGAD Head of Mission to Ethiopia, Abebaw Bihonegn, as well as other senior officials from the Government of Ethiopia and IGAD also took part in the visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit, journalists from IGAD Member States underscored that the GERD plays a significant role not only for Ethiopia, but also for neighboring countries, by strengthening cooperation in renewable energy and contributing to ongoing efforts to combat climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journalists added that the unified mobilization of the Ethiopian people in constructing this monumental dam serves as an inspiring example of successful project implementation for other African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: MoFA, Ethiopia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMN PLUS- December 1\/2025 The winning and participating journalists of the 3rd Eastern Africa Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Media Awards, which was held in Addis Ababa, have paid a visit to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) earlier today. State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hadera Abera; Deputy Executive Secretary of IGAD; Mohamed Abdi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}