Power First, Diplomacy Second? Ethiopia Launches Mega-Dam as Egypt Protests
by Ethiopia has inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, on the Blue Nile. Built over 14 years with domestic financing (about $5 billion), the GERD has a 74-billion-cubic-meter reservoir and can generate up to 5,150 MW of electricity theguardian.com. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hailed the project as a …