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Egypt: Madbouli Calls for Reaching Binding Agreement to GERD Issue
Egypt Online, 25 January 2022
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has expressed Egypt's keenness on reaching a legally-binding agreement for filling and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to… Read more »
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East Africa: Ethiopia's Abiy Calls On Sudan, Egypt to Nurture GERD 'Narrative Towards Building Peace'
Addis Standard, 20 January 2022
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called on Sudan and Egypt "to nurture the narrative towards building peace, cooperation, mutual co-existence and development of all our people without… Read more »
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Egypt: Egypt Hopes for Reaching Legally Binding Deal On GERD
Egypt Online, 17 January 2022
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has reaffirmed that Cairo is keen to reach a legally binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in… Read more »
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Africa: What Makes GERD a Pan-African Project?
Ethiopian Herald, 17 October 2021
From the victory at Adwa to the establishment of the Organization of African Union (OAU) and many other continental achievements Ethiopia has been setting examples that promote the… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Accomplishing Second Phase Filling of GERD
Ethiopian Herald, 21 July 2021
Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) announced that the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been completed successfully. It is remembered… Read more »
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Ethiopia: The Untold Story of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Ethiopian Herald, 18 July 2021
(Ethiopian Ambassador to the U.S., Special to the NNPA Newswire) Read more »
Sudan, Egypt Called to Nurture Nile Dam 'Narrative Towards Peace'
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called on Sudan and Egypt "to nurture the narrative towards building peace, cooperation, mutual co-existence and development of all our people without harming one another."
In a letter, PM Abiy has said Ethiopia has an ambition to build a modern economy based on agriculture, manufacturing and industry. It is committed to developing social infrastructure with quality education, health systems and the provision of clean water for its people.
He further said, Ethiopia also aims to nurture a clean environment able to sequester carbon and emit net zero carbon; to maintain biological diversity and to build a resilient ecosystem that is not exposed to climate vulnerabilities.
Abiy reaffirmed that "Ethiopia's intention in constructing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is to enable the regulation function so that electricity generation from the infrastructure is uniform throughout the year. This means, as a hydropower dam, the GERD does not consume water. Rather the water continues to flow downstream uninterrupted", reports Addis Standard.
The three countries have been at loggerheads for a while, beginning with how Ethiopia's GERD on the Blue Nile, was to be filled. This was followed by a disagreement over an unmarked border line in al-Fashaqa, with Khartoum claiming that Ethiopia invaded its territory. Khartoum is now accusing Addis Ababa of arming rebels in its territory.
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The foreign ministers of Egypt and Sudan appealed to the United Nations Security Council to intervene in their dispute with Ethiopia over the operation of a mega dam on the Nile River, Voice of America (VOA) reports. Tensions have escalated since Addis Ababa said on July 5, 2021 that it had begun the second phase of filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan object, insisting
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On May 4, 2021 Ethiopia issued a statement accusing Sudan of "increasingly bellicose propaganda" regarding their border and negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). It criticised Sudan's May 1, 2021 claim of sovereignty over Ethiopia's Benishangul-Gumuz region, where the dam is being constructed. This is an escalation of the border dispute between Sudan and Ethiopia that started in November 2020 over al-Fashaga, an area between Sudan's eastern province of
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As tensions rise again over the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam - which Egypt says threatens its water supply and thus its economy - the Peace and Security Council Report of the South-African based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) is urging the African Union (AU) to persevere with negotiations to resolve the regional dispute over the dam.
Talks aimed at an "African solution to an African problem" - pursued by last year's AU chair, President
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The two countries have been at loggerheads for a while, beginning with how Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, was to be filled. This was followed by a disagreement over an unmarked border line in al-Fashaqa, with Khartoum claiming that Ethiopia invaded its territory. Khartoum is now accusing Addis Ababa of arming rebels in its territory. Officials in Sudan said Ethiopia has provided "logistical
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd), under construction since 2011, began holding back water after the the Blue Nile swelled during heavy rains in July.
