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Browsing: Ethiopia and Egypt Conflict
Ethiopia plans to go ahead with it scheduled second filling of its embattled Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). When complete, the GERD will be the largest in Africa and have the capacity to produce in excess of 6,000 MW per day.
As expected, Egypt, the historic colonial-era custodian, will not have it and along with Sudan, has called for intervention by the African Union (AU) as well as international bodies and the UN Security Council citing security reasons.
Egypt and Sudan want the UN Security Council to intervene in the GERD owing to what the Sudanese government describes as ‘its impact on the safety and security of millions of people.’
They are of the view that Ethiopia is acting of its own accord and in total disregard of the danger, its actions pose to regional stability. As such, Sudan wrote to the UN Security Council and Egypt has joined the …