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The Biden administration needs to do more to resolve the deadlock over the <\/strong>Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)<\/strong>, Egyptian Ambassador to the US Motaz Zahran told Al Arabiya<\/a>. \u201cWe haven\u2019t seen that kind of pressure for the past year, and what is needed is to continue the effort that had been spearheaded by the previous administration,\u201d Zahran said.<\/p>\n

The dam has long been a source of tension between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan:<\/strong> Talks over the filling and operation of the dam have been deadlocked for the past year as Ethiopia perseveres with filling the reservoir without an agreement with Cairo and Khartoum. Earlier this year, Ethiopia began to generate power<\/a> from the dam and plans to go ahead with the third filling this summer, raising tensions with Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Biden administration needs to do more to resolve the deadlock over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egyptian Ambassador to the US Motaz Zahran told Al Arabiya. \u201cWe haven\u2019t seen that kind of pressure for the past year, and what is needed is to continue the effort that had been spearheaded by the previous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7262],"tags":[499,168,72,382,410,127,126],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-546505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomacy","tag-biden-administration","tag-diplomacy","tag-enterpriseam","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-politics","tag-sudan","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"286d3530-0c9e-49b9-b9c4-689039bcaa7d","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[546478],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgypts calls on US to intervene in GERD dispute - 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