Ethiopian Blue Nile Dam Project Progress

September 05, 2020

Violence broke out last week in the ethiopian capital addis ababa and the. Egypt has rejected a request by ethiopia to postpone a settlement on points of disagreement surrounding ethiopia s controversial renaissance dam.

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The recent meeting of the un security council to discuss ethiopia s huge hydro electric plant the grand ethiopian renaissance dam gerd straddling the blue nile was held by teleconference.

Ethiopian blue nile dam project progress. But they have delayed. Ethiopia wanted the issue to be referred. Ethiopian prime minister abiy ahmed said tuesday that recent domestic unrest would not derail his plan to start filling a mega dam on the blue nile river this month despite objections from downstream neighbours egypt and sudan.

Due to the coup d état of 1974 however the project failed to progress. Dam construction began on the blue nile near the sudan border in ethiopia s benishangul gumuz region back in april 2011. Once completed the 4 5 billion project will be africa s biggest.

The construction of the 4 6 billion grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile which is over 70 complete and promises to provide much needed electricity to ethiopia s 100 million people. The eventual site for the grand ethiopian renaissance dam was identified by the united states bureau of reclamation in the course of the blue nile survey which was conducted between 1956 and 1964 during the administration of aklilu habtewold. Ethiopia egypt sudan make slow progress in nile dam row the three countries have agreed the filling of the nile dam should start in the wet season and proceed in stages.

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