CAIRO – 15 July 2020: Ethiopia’s Minister of Water and Irrigation announced, Wednesday, the start of filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) according to Sky news. The announcement comes shortly after announcing that the negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia did not achieve any progress or an agreement. The United Nations Security Council gave two weeks to the African Union to realize an agreement between the three countries on GERD. On Monday, Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew denied, reports circulated by local media claims the country started already filling Grand Renaissance Dam, GERD since July 8. Constructions in the Grand Renaissance Dam started on April 2, 2011 at a cost of $4.8 billion.

Source: Egypt Today July 15, 2020 13:52 UTC