(Worthy News) – Egypt said on Sunday it wants talks over a dam Ethiopia is building speeded up in a sign of its apparent frustration over what it sees as footdragging by Addis Ababa over the dispute.
Egypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam, a US$4 billion (£2.9 billion)-hydroelectric project that Cairo fears will reduce waters that run to its fields and reservoirs from Ethiopia’s highlands and via Sudan.
Addis Ababa hopes the dam will make it a hub for the electricity-hungry region and denies it will undermine Egypt’s access to water. [ Source: Channel News Asia (Read More…) ]
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