Egypt denounced Ethiopia Wednesday for moving forward with building and operating a hydropower dam on the Nile that Cairo worries will threaten already scarce water supplies. Ethiopia, the source of the Blue Nile which joins the White Nile in Khartoum and runs on to Egypt, says the dam will not disrupt the river's flow and hopes the project will transform it into a power hub for the electricity-hungry region. Egypt relies on the Nile for up to 90 percent of its freshwater, and fears the dam, which is being built in Ethiopia close to the border with Sudan, will restrict already scarce supplies.

Source: Ethiopian News October 09, 2019 21:00 UTC