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October 27, 2020

Talks resuming today over Nile River dam

  • The dam will provide electricity to Ethiopia but Egypt and Sudan are worried about their main source of freshwater being cut.

    • Photo by Gioia Forster/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images [enlarge]
    Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be the largest dam in Africa. This photo taken in November 2017 shows it under construction.

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River will resume today, according to the chairman of the African Union, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.


     
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