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A River Divides: The Dam Crisis
May 9, 2024
Since 2011, Ethiopia has been building a dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, that Egypt thinks will reduce the water in the Nile and exacerbate desertification in the region. Egypt has gained the backing of local nations, including Sudan and South Sudan, in preventing this dam from completion.
Ethiopia refuses to stop building the dam.
Now Egypt is mobilizing its reserves with apparent intention of declaring war on Ethiopia and invading to stop the completion of the dam. They do so despite the lack of concrete science behind Egypt's assertions. Observers fail to see the point in this conflict, but political realities in Egypt have made the topic of Ethiopia's dam a boiling point in regional sentiment.
Ethiopia, meanwhile, continues its war against the Tigray Defense Force, and some analysts wonder whether Ethiopia has the resource to resist a second front opening against her.
May 9, 2024
Since 2011, Ethiopia has been building a dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, that Egypt thinks will reduce the water in the Nile and exacerbate desertification in the region. Egypt has gained the backing of local nations, including Sudan and South Sudan, in preventing this dam from completion.
Ethiopia refuses to stop building the dam.
Now Egypt is mobilizing its reserves with apparent intention of declaring war on Ethiopia and invading to stop the completion of the dam. They do so despite the lack of concrete science behind Egypt's assertions. Observers fail to see the point in this conflict, but political realities in Egypt have made the topic of Ethiopia's dam a boiling point in regional sentiment.
Ethiopia, meanwhile, continues its war against the Tigray Defense Force, and some analysts wonder whether Ethiopia has the resource to resist a second front opening against her.
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