Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on Saturday that Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) might not be completed, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported. Subsequently, Ahmed revealed that the contract was now being transferred from METEC to a different contractor able to resume and complete the GERD. “We have handed over a complicated water dam project to people who have not seen a dam in their life and if we continue in that direction, the project may never see the light of day,” he added, according to private Ethiopian newspaper The Reporter. Bekele, the Project Manager of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, was killed in July while driving his car in Meskel Square in Addis Adaba city, Ethiopia. Egypt’s share of Nile water sits at 55.5 billion cubic meters, while Sudan’s quota is 18.5 billion cubic meters.

Source: Egypt Independent August 26, 2018 13:07 UTC