Ethiopia was responding to comments about the dam, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, made by Trump on Friday during a ceremony marking a breakthrough normalization deal between Israel and Sudan. "It's a very dangerous situation because Egypt is not going to be able to live that way," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Egypt depends on the Nile for about 97 percent of its irrigation and drinking water and sees the dam as an existential threat. -Washington's attempt to broker a deal to resolve the dam issue ended in failure earlier this year after Ethiopia accused the Trump administration of favoring Egypt. Josep Borrell, the EU's chief diplomat, said in a statement Saturday that a deal on the dam was "within reach".

Source: Ethiopian News October 24, 2020 16:30 UTC