Ethiopia has pinned hopes of development and power generation on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), while downstream Sudan is concerned about regulating flows to its own dams and Egypt fears an impact o
The economic loss from each year delay in construction and in filling can be determined from investment return of the fund spent on the construction of the dam. One can build a large reservoir on a small river as long as there is no concern in the number of years it will take to fill...
Ethiopia does not need Egypt’s permission to start filling GERD March 30, 2020 By Mahemud Tekuya The Blue Nile hydropower dam has been constructed in accordance with international legal principles and Ethiopia has the right to… Opinion
On Tuesday, Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese ministers for foreign affairs and water resumed talks on regulations that should be adopted to fill and operate the dam. Four rounds of talks on the GERD were held with mediation of the U.S. and the World Bank to break the deadlock in the neg...
The Egyptian president did not mention the date of the meeting. However, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported that the meeting will be held later this month. He noted that Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have not reached an agreement on the rules of the filling and operation of the dam, ...
GERD filling and operation during prolonged drought periods25,27. Egypt’s drought management policy is triggered if the AHD storage falls below 60 bcm (~159.4 m)32. The Drought Management Policy (DMP) measures involve three levels: (1) a reduction of 5% of the Aswan High dam downstream ...
151Altmetric Metrics Abstract Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt are currently embroiled in a politically charged conflict that surrounds the soon-to-be-completed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), with Ethiopia’s energy objectives purportedly conflicting with the water needs in Sudan and Egypt. Here we...
Thus, the study employs suppression and over lexicalization as analytical tools to uncover language used in the service of power or ideology in the news stories of the BBC and Al-Jazeera. Research methodology As Ethiopia declared its plan of filling the dam during the beginning of the rainy ...
Abiy is optimist that Ethiopia’s future would be better after the successful filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and conduct of the next general election.Video:Ethiopian News Mereja Media May 12, 2021 Related posts Fano forces in the Amhara region of Ethiopia have established...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a hydroelectric dam currently being built on theAbay River (Blue Nile)near the Sudanese border. When completed, it will have a capacity to store 70 billion cubic meters of water and generate up to 15,128 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity. ...