Continued conflict clogging up Renaissance Dam negotiations - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ayah Aman

Ayah Aman

Dec 4, 2015

Sudanese Water Minister Moataz Moussa (C) attends 7th meeting of the tripartite technical committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on July 22, 2015 in the capital Khartoum. AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) — Sudanese Water Minister Moataz Moussa (C) attends the seventh meeting of the Tripartite National Committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the capital of Khartoum, July 22, 2015. — ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images

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A photo taken on March 31, 2015 shows the Grand Renaissance Dam under construction near the Sudanese-Ethiopian border. Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile in May 2013 to build the 6,000 megawatt dam, which will be Africa's largest when completed in 2017. The leaders of Egypt and Ethiopia promised on March 24 to boost cooperation on the Nile river and turn a page on a long-running row over Addis Ababa's controversial dam project. Egypt, heavily reliant for millennia on the Nile for agriculture and drinkin

Egypt unmoved on Ethiopia's plan to fill Renaissance Dam reservoir

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-sisi attends a signing ceremony for the Agreement on the Declaration of Principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project in Khartoum March 23, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah - RTR4UIKO

Potential solutions to Egypt-Ethiopia dam dispute remain murky

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukri speaks during a press conference with his Sudanese and Ethiopian counterparts in the early hours of March 6, 2015, on the sidelines of meetings in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, to announce they had reached an agreement on the sharing of Nile waters and Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam. The principles of the use of the eastern Nile Basin and the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be submitted to the heads of the three states for approval. AFP PHOTO / ASHRAF SHAZLY (

Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia inch toward resolving Nile dam crisis

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

A general view of the Saddle Dam, part of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia, near Guba in Ethiopia, on December 26, 2019. - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 145-metre-high, 1.8-kilometre-long concrete colossus is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa.
Across Ethiopia, poor farmers and rich businessmen alike eagerly await the more than 6,000 megawatts of electricity officials say it will ultimately provide.
Yet as thousands of workers toil day and night to finish the

Anger flares as Ethiopia announces, denies Nile dam filling has started

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture