{"id":635777,"date":"2017-12-13T04:08:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/12\/13\/what-were-tracking-this-week-88\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T04:08:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:08:47","slug":"what-were-tracking-this-week-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/12\/13\/what-were-tracking-this-week-88\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re tracking this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Egypt drumming up more international pressure on Ethiopia?<\/strong> Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Ahmed Abdel Ati is in Paris this week to participate in a climate change conference at which he intends to bring up Egypt\u2019s case with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in an appeal to international audiences, <a href=\"https:\/\/alborsanews.com\/2017\/12\/12\/1071965\">Al Borsa says<\/a>. 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