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Amid Egypt Crisis, Addis Pushes Nile Dam
December 2nd, 2012
Via Terra Daily, a look at Ethiopia’s efforts to complete a massive Blue Nile dam: Ethiopia is driving to complete its massive $4.8 billion Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile amid a long-running dispute with Egypt that will likely worsen in the months ahead unless addressed. Egypt faces destabilization as it stands to lose […]
Read more »Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Agree On Water Co-operation
November 13th, 2012
Via AllAfrica, a report on an agreement related to the Eastern Nile basin: Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have agreed to resume their tripartite cooperation under the Eastern Nile Basin. The three nations had devised a joint institutional framework and been working together on Nile waters conservation and utilization since 1999. Water resources ministers of the […]
Read more »The Nile…Under Threat
November 12th, 2012
Courtesy of The Los Angeles Times, an interesting look at how poor African capitals are increasingly challenging Cairo for the Nile’s water, without which Egypt’s economy would wither and die: Overwhelmed by cascading economic and political problems since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, this nation teeters from within even as it biggest threat may lie […]
Read more »Egypt Pushes Ethiopia To Scrap Nile Dam
October 21st, 2012
Via Terra Daily, a look at the simmering tension between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile: Egypt increasingly views Ethiopia’s plan to build a massive 6,000-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the Nile River as a threat to its national security because it will seriously cut the Arab state’s water supplies. Egypt depends on the Nile for […]
Read more »In 2010, Egypt Was Prepared To Bomb All Of Ethiopia’s Nile Dams
October 14th, 2012
Via Business Insider, a look at some old information (dated 2010) that indicated that Egypt was prepared to take military action to protect its stake in the Nile: In 2010 Egypt discussed taking military action in cooperation with Sudan against Ethiopia to protect their stake in Nile River, according to internal emailsfrom the U.S. private-security […]
Read more »River Politics: Ethiopia’s Contested Dam Project on the Nile River
October 11th, 2012
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of the geopolitics related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: At the height of the Arab Spring in March 2011 when Egypt was consumed by domestic unrest, Ethiopia announced it would soon begin construction on a hydroelectric dam along the Blue Nile River, one of two main tributaries for the […]
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