KHARTOUM - Sudan has condemned neighbouring Ethiopia for launching power generation at a controversial dam on the Blue Nile without the agreement of downstream nations, saying the "unilateral move" violated international commitments. The two downstream nations had also pushed for an agreement on the filling of the dam's reservoir, but Ethiopia went ahead without one in 2020. Addis Ababa regards the dam project -- which will be Africa's largest when complete -- as essential to the development of Africa's second-most populous country. Egypt, which depends on the Nile for about 97 percent of its irrigation and drinking water, sees the dam as an existential threat. Sudan hopes the project will regulate annual flooding but fears its own dams will be harmed without agreement on its operation.

Source: Ethiopian News February 22, 2022 20:43 UTC