Nile Dam dispute could be heading to Security Council
With Ethiopia threatening to proceed with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s second filling, Egypt and Sudan look for a goodwill gesture and ramp up diplomacy.
During his Senate confirmation hearing in January, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could "boil over," promising that the United States would be "fully engaged" in the Horn of Africa.
The dispute has been approaching high diplomatic boil. Talks mediated by Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, the current head of the African Union, collapsed without agreement April 6.
Ethiopia declared it will go ahead with the second filling of the dam, which would diminish the waters that flow to Egypt and Sudan.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said afterward that "an Egyptian water drop shall not be messed with, because all options [are] open."
