CAIRO — Ethiopia on Saturday denounced "belligerent threats" over the huge hydropower dam it has nearly completed on the Blue Nile river, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump said Egypt could "blow up" the project. Trump made the comment while announcing that Sudan, which sits downstream from the dam, would start to normalize ties with Israel on Friday. "They will end up blowing up the dam," Trump said, referring to Egypt. The Blue Nile joins the White Nile in Sudan to become the Nile, and about 85 percent of the river's flow originates from Ethiopia. Officials in Ethiopia hope the dam, now more than three-quarters complete, will reach full power-generating capacity by 2023.

Source: Ethiopian News October 24, 2020 14:48 UTC