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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: On Track To Complete First Mega-Dams By 2015
November 13th, 2012
Via Climate Connections, a look at Ethiopia’s plans to build a series of large dams along the Nile River in the next few years: Ethiopia’s energy minister played down concerns on Monday about how it would finance the first of an array of mega-dams due to revolutionise east African power markets, saying it was on […]
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 »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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