Egypt should offer to help Ethiopia with GERD to gain an upper hand in talks

Egypt should offer Ethiopia the know-how and infrastructure for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Ali Abdel Aziz writes for El Watan. He suggests that sharing its experience with the High Dam and and offer to supply the high-capacity transmission network Ethiopia will need to distribute the energy produced by the dam would put Cairo back in the driver’s seat on GERD. Abdel Aziz argues that the “if you can’t beat them, join them” approach could give Egypt leverage to control the rate at which Ethiopia fills the dam’s reservoir, which is the main point of concern for Egypt.