FILE PHOTO - A cloud of dust rises from a dynamite blast, as part of construction work, at Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam during a media tour along the river Nile in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, in Ethiopia March 31, 2015. Egypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam, a $4 billion-hydroelectric project that Cairo fears will reduce waters that run to its fields and reservoirs from Ethiopia's highlands and via Sudan. Sudan supports the dam because it will regulate floods and provide electricity and irrigation. Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have agreed to finish the initial technical study within one month, the Egyptian state news agency said, citing the foreign minister. A major source of disagreement over the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam is the speed at which its reservoir would be filled.

Source: Ethiopian News January 29, 2018 12:56 UTC