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Nile Dam Talks: A Short Window to Embrace Compromise
With rains swelling the Blue Nile, Ethiopia is just weeks away from beginning to fill the massive dam it is building.
Egypt and Sudan demand that it not do so without an agreement.
- ICG
All three countries urgently need to make concessions for a deal.
On 9 June, Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan resumed talks on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), raising hopes that they can strike a deal before Addis Ababa makes good on its intention to begin impounding water in the dam’s reservoir, with or…
Ethiopia began constructing the landmark project a…