{"id":8534,"date":"2014-05-15T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2014-05-15T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:57:58","slug":"sudan-to-export-electricity-to-eritrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8534","title":{"rendered":"Sudan to export electricity to Eritrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Afwerkey_and_Basir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8535 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Afwerkey_and_Basir-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Afwerkey_and_Basir-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Afwerkey_and_Basir-220x143.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Afwerkey_and_Basir.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Government of Sudan has agreed to supply electrical power to neighbouring Eritrea during a visit by President Isaias Afwerki to Khartoum last week.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that work on the 45-kilometer transfer line between countries has already began. Online sources have revealed that the electricity power line is expected to have a capacity to transfer about 66 KV.<\/p>\n<p>President Afwerki also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesfanews.net\/sudan-to-supply-power-and-fuel-to-eritrea\/\">discussed and entered agreements<\/a> with President Omar al Bashir in other important areas including trade, border security and petroleum.<\/p>\n<p>There are speculations that Sudan is set to also begin transferring fuel to Asmara. But according to a top Sudanese official present at the meeting, no agreement has been reached on this issue yet.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Sudanese government signed a deal with Ethiopia that will see the former supply its neighbour 100 MW of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has also entered into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trust.org\/item\/?map=ethiopia-seeks-to-power-east-africa-with-hydro\">similar deals<\/a> with up to 6 other east African nations to supply them surplus power upon the completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).<\/p>\n<p>Photo\/Sudanese Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Sudan has agreed to supply electrical power to neighbouring Eritrea during a visit by President Isaias Afwerki to Khartoum last week. Reports indicate that work on the 45-kilometer transfer line between countries has already began. Online sources<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8534\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2872,409,1],"tags":[1762,2894,712,2893],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}