US President Donald Trump sparked diplomatic tensions Friday when he suggested that Egypt could “blow up” the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) Ethiopia is building on a tributary of the Nile. It prompted Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to say his country would not “cave-in to aggressions of any kind”. And the Ethiopian foreign ministry summoned the US ambassador to explain Trump’s words, objecting to what it called Trump’s “incitement of war”. In an exchange with Sudanese PM Abdalla Hamdok the conversation moved to the GERD, long a bone of serious contention between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. He continued: “And I said it and I say it loud and clear, they’ll blow up that dam.

Source: Ethiopian News October 26, 2020 11:03 UTC