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Calming the Choppy Nile Dam Talks
Egypt and Ethiopia are exchanging harsh words over the dam the latter is building on the Blue Nile.
At issue is how fast the Horn nation will fill its reservoir once construction is complete.
- William Davison
- ICG
The two countries’ leaders should cool the rhetoric and seek compromise.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed are set to meet on the margins of an…
Ethiopia is building the dam on the main tributary of the Nile, and Egypt fears that the project will imperil its water supply.
Experts from those two nations and Sudan, the…