The commission said it received reports that Sedal Woreda, in the Kamashi Zone of the western Benishangul-Gumuz Region, was “under near full control of an armed group as of April 19”. The commission did not say which armed group it was referring to.
The woreda, or county, is home to around 25,000 people, the commission said in the statement issued late on Wednesday.
Local officials were not immediately available for comment. The region is home to the strategically important Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a $4 billion project that Ethiopia says is key to its economic development and power generation but has sparked fears in Egypt and Sudan over disruptions in supplies of water from the Nile.
Ethiopia rights commission said armed group has taken control of county
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When Mohammed Abdel Wahhab chanted the poem in the movie
The White Rose in 1933, the Egyptians were angry and objected to Shawqi s attempt to attribute the great River Nile to the negus, a title of the King of Abyssinia, modern Ethiopia. Shawqi reassured the Egyptian people by explaining that the word negus is from the Amharic language, and he used it to convey the meaning that the Nile is king because of the great and glorious role it plays in the life of Egypt.
A lot of Nile water has flowed by since then, and today the ruler is ruled by Ethiopia. When Shawqi described the Nile as king Egypt was powerful, with geographic dominance extending into Africa. This was especially so during the era of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who supported revolutions across the continent with weapons and funds. Under Nasser, Cairo was an incubator of African revolutions.
Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be the largest hydroelectric installation in Africa.
The project, which began construction ten years ago, is located on the
Blue Nile, a river that joins the
White Nile in Khartoum and provides 60% of the Nile s flow.
Ethiopia is about to complete this flagship project for its economic development. However, the country is unable to resolve the discord with its neighbours:
Egypt and
Sudan, who fear its impact on their water supply.
For several years, negotiations have been underway to find common ground between the three countries with the
African Union coming on board to oversee talks the latest held this week in Kinshasa once again reaching an impasse.