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Egypt to press for outside mediator in Ethiopia dam dispute

By Aidan Lewis

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will push Ethiopia this week to agree to an external mediator to help resolve a deepening dispute over a giant hydropower dam being built on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile, officials said on Sunday.‮‮ ‬‬

Egypt sees the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as an existential risk, fearing it will threaten scarce water supplies in Egypt and power generation at its own dam in Aswan. READ MORE‮‮ ‬‬

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