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Showing posts with label Nile river. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nile river. Show all posts
Friday, September 27, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Why did Egypt-Somali alliance spark an alarm in Ethiopia?
Recommendable! More on the Horn of Africa and the Nile river.
Friday, June 14, 2024
Why Africa's Largest $5B Nile Dam in Ethiopia is So Controversial
Another cause for war in this region?
Friday, May 17, 2024
How were Egypt's Pyramids Built? Scientists found an answer with Palki Sharma
Very recommendable! Amazing stuff!
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Talks Fail Between Egypt & Ethiopia Over Dam on the Nile with Palki Sharma
How serious will this get? Water wars?
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Michael Rubin: Ethiopia’s hydro-hegemony has arrived
Recommendable! Apparently, Ethiopia has a history of taking unilateral action on harnessing international water resources at the detriment of its neighbor countries.
"... Ethiopia has repeatedly failed to negotiate in good faith. In 2007, the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office of the Nile Basin Initiative—an intergovernmental partnership comprising ten Nile Basin countries including Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt—reportedly concluded that the optimum storage capacity for a hydroelectric dam in the location where Addis Ababa would eventually build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was 14.47 billion cubic meters. That number is less than one-fifth of what Ethiopia later constructed. ...
While taking unilateral actions that could impact 98 percent of Egyptians might appear a casus belli—a justifiable one—Ethiopian water unilateralism is not new. Consider Ethiopia’s Gibe dams on the Omo River basin: Ethiopia’s unilateral damming, especially in the Omo River basin, including the Gibe cascade, devastated the UNESCO-listed Lake Turkana in Kenya. Its actions threatened the existence of the lake and exacerbated both hunger and conflict in the surrounding areas. Ethiopian actions—taken absent consultation with Kenya—may replicate the Aral Sea disaster in East Africa. ..."
While taking unilateral actions that could impact 98 percent of Egyptians might appear a casus belli—a justifiable one—Ethiopian water unilateralism is not new. Consider Ethiopia’s Gibe dams on the Omo River basin: Ethiopia’s unilateral damming, especially in the Omo River basin, including the Gibe cascade, devastated the UNESCO-listed Lake Turkana in Kenya. Its actions threatened the existence of the lake and exacerbated both hunger and conflict in the surrounding areas. Ethiopian actions—taken absent consultation with Kenya—may replicate the Aral Sea disaster in East Africa. ..."
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