The follow up of negotiations for 10 years without results is evidence of Addis Ababa’s intransigence, the Minister considered. The ongoing claim about Egypt’s politicization of this issue is an attempt by Ethiopia to evade its legal responsibility and reflects a disregard for the principles of international law and good neighborliness, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said. Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesman Meles Alem said this week that the GERD has not caused any damage to the two nations downstream of the Nile: Egypt and Sudan. Cairo says the dam threatens its quota of water from the Nile, on which the country of more than 104 million people is almost entirely dependent for human consumption, agriculture and industry. The Addis Ababa authorities consider the GERD a key to supplying electricity to more than 110 million inhabitants of Ethiopia, thus boosting its socio-economic development.

Source: Ethiopian News April 13, 2023 13:22 UTC