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Toronto – Water Ministers from six Nile Basin countries, including Ethiopia, visited the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Sunday, Ethiopian state media reported.
The ministers from Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda toured the project site in Guba, Benishangul Gumuz Region, where they were briefed by Ethiopia’s Water and Energy Minister, Habtamu Itefa, and GERD Project Manager, Kifle Horo.
They were accompanied by journalists and Addis Ababa-based diplomats.
In October 2024, six Nile Basin countries ratified the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement. Sudan, one of the lower riparian states, has rejected the agreement.
Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda ratified the agreement with a majority vote. Egypt, a country that has been claiming a “historical right” over the Nile River based on a 1859 colonial-era agreement, has vehemently opposed the agreement.
Ethiopia and Egypt are in a hostile relationship due to the GERD project, although they have held numerous rounds of talks over several years with the aim of resolving their differences over the use of the Abbay (Nile) water. Ethiopia has been rejecting colonial-era agreements to which it was not a party and advocating instead for equitable use of the water, 85 percent of which originates from the Ethiopian Highlands.
The Ethiopian government has stated that over 97 percent of the project is completed. However, there have been claims that Abiy Ahmed’s government downsized the number of turbines and the height of the dam, though this has not been confirmed by independent sources.
Currently, the dam holds over 42 billion cubic meters of water. The initial plan was for the reservoir to hold over 74 billion cubic meters of water.
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The question both Egypt and Sudan have to answer based on the realities on the ground is: Have you lost even a spoonful of water from the Nile River since the construction of the dam? The honest answer is and should be, no. The dam will be there and there forever taking hundreds of millions all the way to Tanzania out of darkness. The leaders of Egypt are not that stupid to resort to war to resolve problems that don’t exist. If they do, they will end up losing the river after all for ever. But they will try to do something violent to the dam using their servile proxies meant just to disrupt the operation. I am at liberty 100% to think that the dam will be a target if a war breaks out with the Abruzzis in Piccola Roma. These so-called rebels will do that just for a bag of rice and a few boxes of AK47’s.