Is diplomacy running out on Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over Nile dam?
The African Union, the UN Security Council and the Trump administration may be last best bets to stave off an Egypt-Ethiopia war.
![1192325317 Kafule Yigzaw (L) check iron bars at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), 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 project, Ethiop](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2020/07/GettyImages-1192325317.jpg/GettyImages-1192325317.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=Ba0PGHS0)
Life and death
“For Egypt, the matter of the Nile is a matter of life and death,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said in an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor in September 2019, adding, “I don’t think anybody would agree that Ethiopian development should come at the expense of the lives of Egyptians.”