Update 22 July 2020

Row over Africa’s largest dam in danger of escalating, warn scientists

Ethiopia wants to start filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam this summer. Egypt calls it an ‘existential threat’.

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Researchers are warning that Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan need to move faster to resolve a long-running dispute over the building of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.

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Nature583, 501-502 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02124-8

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Update 22 July 2020: This story was updated after reports emerged that rising waters in the dam’s reservoir were due to rain water, and not due to Ethiopia filling the dam, as first reported.

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