Ethiopia: GERD - Installing 'Yes We Can Do' Mentality On the Public

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The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is halved. We have reached a point where the owner and builders of the dam - the Ethiopian people - are sure that the project will be completed as planned. And this has been a drive and motivation for our people to finish the dam in its scheduled time.

As the Dam was able to bring full national consensus, it has strengthened the unity of Ethiopians. Not only this. The fact that the Ethiopian people and government in full national consensus decided to build the GERD with their own capabilities and brought it to its current completion rate has enabled to change the up to now confrontational relation with the downstream countries of Egypt and Sudan to one of collaborative. It is a huge diplomatic coup that showed Ethiopia has an inalienable right and has the capacity to utilize its natural resource that it shares with other countries to guarantee a better live for its people.

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