Ethiopia’s attitude toward GERD could destabilize the region, says assistant FM

Ethiopia’s attitude toward the GERD crisis could have a destabilizing effect on the whole region, Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Sherif Eissa said yesterday at Cairo Water Week, according to Al Shorouk. The Nile Basin country had previously built three dams on its part of the Omo River, threatening a drought at the connected Lake Turkana in Kenya. Its “usual practices” have also involved projects over Somalia’s Jubba River that severely impacted water levels, Eissa said.

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