Nile Dam row: Egypt and Ethiopia generate heat but no power
These are external links and will open in a new window/ While for Ethiopia, the dam, pictured here in 2019, is vital, Egypt sees it is as a threat to its existence The polite diplomatic façade was maintained but the words of the Egyptian and Ethiopian representatives revealed a belligerence that was hard to disguise. The recent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss Ethiopia's huge hydro-electric plant, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd), straddling the Blue Nile, was held by teleconference. The social distance that the ...
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