As Ethiopia s Civil War Rages, Bodies Float Downriver Into Sudan
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Dam deadlock: Where did Egypt go wrong in managing the GERD dispute for over a decade?
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July 19, 2021
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, in its capacity as the African Union chair, is seeking to host a new negotiation round between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile the main tributary of the Nile River three months after talks were halted.
The Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper cited anonymous Egyptian sources July 12 as saying that the African Union addressed the three countries as part of a new initiative to start a new round of negotiations in Kinshasa within two weeks.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, speaking at an event to promote development of Egyptian villages July 15, indicated that the dam is a national security issue for Egypt, which he called a red line that “cannot be crossed.”