CAIRO – 13 April 2021: Water Resources Professor at Cairo University Hani Swelam argued in a phone-in Sunday that there is a 50 percent chance the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will collapse. "The [Renaissance] dam is located in a geological nature that is one of a kind. As the dam is close to the Sudanese borders, if it collapses, the water of its reservoir would hit the Roseires Dam having seven billion cubic meters and located just 15 billion cubic meters away from the Renaissance Dam. Swelam highlighted that if the Renaissance Dam collapses, Ethiopia will only lose money unlike Sudan that will be doomed. "Repair works took place for a year, and the company that executed that project is the same that is implementing Renaissance Dam," the professor noted.

Source: Egypt Today April 13, 2021 12:22 UTC