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US diplomat: 'There is an absence of political will’ in Nile River dam dispute

A State Department official told the Senate on Thursday that the Biden administration supports a "two-stage process" to diplomatically resolve the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan.
Ambassador Godec

A State Department official updated the Senate on Thursday on the dispute surrounding Ethiopia’s Nile River dam. 

Robert Godec, the acting assistant secretary of state for African affairs, and Sarah Charles from the United States Agency for International Development, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. 

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