In this file photo taken on December 26, 2019 a worker goes down a construction ladder at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia. Ethiopia will start generating power from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, government officials told AFP, a major milestone for the controversial project. "Tomorrow will be the first energy generation of the dam," an Ethiopian government official said on Saturday. The 145-metre (475-foot) high dam lies on Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of western Ethiopia, not far from the border with Sudan. Egypt, which depends on the Nile for about 97% of its irrigation and drinking water, sees the dam as an existential threat.

Source: Ethiopian News February 19, 2022 23:36 UTC