Ethiopia says it has made significant progress in the construction of its flagship Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, even as negotiations to resolve a dispute over filling the dam’s reservoir continue. Progress in constructionEthiopian lawmakers visited the construction site of the dam where they were told that 70% of the works on the project has been completed. The dam project is scheduled to be fully completed in 2023. Egypt is worried the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), under construction near Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, will restrict supplies of already scarce Nile waters on which it is almost entirely dependent. Sudan proposed a specified time for filling the reservoir and added definitions for drought and continuous drought,” Abbas said.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2019 16:07 UTC