CAIRO – 2 November 2020: The irrigation and water resources ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan presented on Sunday their visions on the mechanism that shall be adopted to resume negotiations on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Sunday's meeting is the outcome of another that took place on October 27, and that was held by the ministers of water resources and foreign affairs of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan. The disagreement among Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia dates back to May 2011 when Ethiopia started building the dam; Egypt voiced concern over its water share [55.5 billion cubic meters]. Three years later, a series of tripartite talks between the two countries along with Sudan began to reach an agreement, while Ethiopia continued the dam construction. In October 2019, Egypt blamed Addis Ababa for hindering a final agreement concerning a technical problem, calling for activating Article No.

Source: Egypt Today November 02, 2020 09:45 UTC