The US State Department will decouple a freeze on some $270 million worth of aid to Ethiopia from Washington’s approach to the African country’s contested dam on the Nile River, spokesman Ned Price said Friday.
As it has done with many other initiatives of the Trump administration, the Biden administration plans to review US policy toward the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The project has drawn intense opposition from neighboring Egypt and Sudan, whose governments say the hydroelectric plant will greatly reduce their share of Nile water.
