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(Bloomberg) Eritrea Denies Targeting Ethiopia Dam as Egyptian Ties Deepen

Posted by: Biniam Tekle

Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2017

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-22/eritrea-denies-targeting-ethiopia-dam-as-egyptian-ties-deepen

Eritrea Denies Targeting Ethiopia Dam as Egyptian Ties Deepen

by
Samuel Gebre
May 22, 2017, 4:31 AM EDT

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki denied his country’s deepening
relations with Egypt signify plans to disrupt neighboring Ethiopia’s
construction of Africa’s biggest hydropower dam.

“The claim by the Ethiopian regime that the relation between Eritrea
and Egypt is targeting the millennium dam is unfounded,” the Ministry
of Information said on its website, citing a May 21 interview with
Isaias in the capital, Asmara.

Egypt’s government has claimed Ethiopia’s construction of the
hydropower dam on the main tributary of the Nile River contravenes
colonial-era treaties that grant it the right to the bulk of the
river’s water. Ethiopian officials reject the accords as obsolete and
unjust. The plant, being built at a cost of $6.4 billion, is scheduled
for completion next year and will produce as much as 6,450 megawatts
of power.

Isaias traveled to Cairo in November to meet Egyptian President
Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, when the two discussed deepening relations, the
Cairo-based Daily News Egypt newspaper reported.

Ethiopia’s government has said forces receiving support from Egypt and
Eritrea are trying to destabilize the country. In October,
Communications Minister Getachew Reda said the banned Oromo Liberation
Front received financing and training from Egypt. In March, Ethiopian
security forces killed 13 members of a rebel group that the government
said had crossed into the country from Eritrea.

Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after decades of
armed struggle. The two countries fought again in 1998-2000 over the
disputed territory of Badme on their border in a conflict that left at
least 50,000 people dead.

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