Ethiopia Opens Africa’s Biggest Dam, Angering Egypt

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The most prominent events this week: Ethiopia opens a Controversial On the Nile River, South Sudan Army Get seizure of the main cities amid conflict with a group of competition, and Kenya president An American pressure company is rented for its offer in Washington.

Ethiopia opened the largest electric dam in Africa on Tuesday, where it ended the majority of Egypt in the Nile River. The controversial Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, with a value of $ 5 billion (GERD), which took 14 years, aims to double the power generation in Ethiopia and increase the access to electricity to about 60 million Ethiopians who lack it.

Ethiopia also plans to sell cheap electricity created by a 5150 -megawatled esophagus to Kenya, Tanzania and Djibouti, through which the Ethiopian government aims to create $ 427 million of export revenues in this fiscal year. Kenyan President William Roto attended the inauguration of the dam.

But not everyone is happy with Al -Rig – especially not Egypt, which depends almost on the Nile almost all the supply of fresh water. About 80 percent of the river water arises in Ethiopia, and Egypt says that the esophagus threatens its water security. Cairo is previously floating the idea of ​​military intervention against Ethiopia to stop its construction.

In a letter to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Egypt warned that the matter would require a measure to defend “the existential interests of its people.” The Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdi wrote that “any wrong concepts that Cairo will work in the end of its” interest in the Nile are “just delusions.”

Egypt has long taken control of the majority of the Nile water in the framework of the 1929 treaty between the United Kingdom and Egypt, then in light of the partial British colonial rule; The treaty granted the force of veto in Egypt in the Nile Building projects, even those that exceed its limits. Sudan was later signed by the 1959 agreement with Egypt, which increased Egypt’s share of the flow of the Nile from about 57 percent to about 66 percent.

However, the upstream countries-including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia-were not a zero share of water resources in the river and they argued that they could not be bound by agreements in the colonial era that excluded them. By 2024, five of these countries signed a new treaty that Egypt and Sudan rejected.

With the reflux of the esophagus, Ethiopia is now controlling the Nile. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed framing the esophagus as a issue of national pride. Abi said this month: “This project means the end of the geopolitical Ethiopia.”

“The idea that Ethiopia should be able to build a dam on its territory … and Egypt should not spin it on a large scale, something that most Ethiopians will fall behind,” Magnus Taylor, deputy director of the Horne of Africa project at the International Crisis Group, told Reuters.

During the first period of US President Donald Trump, the United States reduced aid to Ethiopia in an attempt to empty the esophagus. Egypt is a major American ally and one of the largest beneficiaries of US foreign aid and military assistance. However, Ethiopia used popular ties after that – selling them to the Ethiopian population and diaspora – to finance the dam.

Trump fought the conflict again in July, when he said that his administration “was working to” solve tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia. He said in June that the dam was “stupid” with funding from the United States, and it is required that Addis Ababa was collapsing.

Fekahmed Negash, former negotiator of Ethiopi, said, ” Reporter MagazineEthiopian port.

Since the end of the century, Ethiopia has relied on China for financial support. Beijing funded some infrastructure around the dam, such as power lines, through loans from the Export and Import Bank in China.

Ethiopian critics have said that Egypt’s concerns about the dam’s effects on water security are exaggerated and that Cairo’s anger is driven by geopolitical aspirations. The Aswan Al -Aswan Dam, which was built on the Nile in the 1960s, is irrigated in the country. However, Egypt argues that the process of filling the reflux of the esophagus has already pushed Sudan to experience water decreases.

The dam’s conflict has the ability to throw tensions throughout the Horn of Africa, as Ethiopia faces a conflict waving on the horizon with Eritrea to reach the Red Sea. In 2024, Ethiopia signed a deal with the separation area in Somalia to reach the Red Sea port. This prompted Somalia, Eritrea and Egypt to formulate what they called a “axis” of the resistance against Ethiopia.

Since then, Somalia has made peace with Ethiopia in a deal in which Türkiye mediated, but the fighting is still between Ethiopia and its neighbors. Last week, the Arab League issued a statement arguing about protecting water rights in Egypt and Sudan.

The statement sparked a sharp response from Suleiman Deedivio, the Ambassador of Ethiopia in Somalia. “What is the legal or moral basis that the” Arab League “must threaten Ethiopia on behalf of Egypt and direct Ethiopia to apply for permission to use its own resources?” Posted on X.

Wednesday September 10: Senegal launches inflation data for August.

The commercial exhibition is concluded inside an African in Algeria, Algeria.

Thursday, September 11: The United Nations Security Council votes to expand its sanctions and prohibit weapons against Sudan.

Tuesday, September 16: Malawi held the presidential elections.

South Sudan Conflict. Weeks after the renewed conflict in southern Sudan, the army said on Saturday that it had taken control of at least two cities in the northeastern state of Neil from a rival army loyal to the Vice President imprisoned.

In March, energy participation arrangement for the year 2018 collapsed between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Rick Mashr. Kiir leads the People’s Liberation Movement Sudan (Splm), which led the independence batch in South Sudan for the year 2011 and is linked to the Dinka Ethnic Group. Machar leads the opposition Splm-in, or Splm-IO, which has relationships with the nuer ethnic group.

The Kiir government arrested Machar on charges of trying to stimulate the rebellion. Kiir has accused Splm-Yo and his military wing of collusion with the White Army, an armed group of Noir that has been fighting the Kiir army since February in the state of Supreme Nile, which borders Sudan.

Meanwhile, the Sudan Army said that Kiir calmly supports a new alliance between a branch of SLM and the Sudanese army competitor, semi -military support forces.

Climate financing summit. Kenyan President William Roto said during the Climate Summit in Africa in Addis Ababa this week that African lenders and commercial banks signed a deal to fill investments of up to $ 100 billion in green manufacturing financing in Africa. Institutions include African Export Export Bank, African Development Bank, and Ecobank Transnational.

Africa is one of the most affected continents of harsh weather events, representing 85 percent of the human firefights worldwide. But it receives only 2 percent of the global climate financing from lenders. The climate policy initiative issued in June found that many climate funding had disappeared from the futile foreign aid budgets.

American pressure groups in Roto. The Roto administration defended a step to sign a pressure deal worth $ 175,000 per month with an American company amid anger from the public and opposition parties. The Kenyan government has recently signed a contract with Continental Strategy, a consultant group founded by Carlos Trugillo, former Trump ambassador to the American Organization of State.

Kenya seeks to obtain closer relations with the United States over trade and security months after protest against the Roto administration and violent repression by the Kenyan security forces. The Kenyan Minister of Ministers, Moussalia Modafadi, said that the deal was a “legal practice” to enhance the interests of Nairobi in Washington, “where the competition for the vision is intense.”

Kenya was a major African partner during the era of former US President Joe Biden, but he found himself sedative during the Trump era. American Senator James Rush feather asked Biden’s appointment to the country as a major ally other than NATO due to Kenya’s relations with China, Iran and Russia, but the proposal was rejected by congress.

Prepo -UNGA visa restrictions. The Trump administration plans to grant a single month -long penalty for the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Tudoro Nguima Obiang, allowing him to attend the Energy Investment Summit in Africa on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City this month and travel around the United States freely.

Obiang is the son of President Tudoro Obiang Nouima Mbasogo, the tallest president in Africa. The United States, France and Switzerland have sued the Ubiang regime on a large scale corruption and the looting of the state, which left citizens in poverty despite the vast natural resources in the country.

The Associated Press reported that the American concession decision to counter China’s influence in Africa. China signed a deal with Equatorial Guinea last year, which includes financing several infrastructure projects. According to Beijing, the aspirations of building a naval base in the country.

The elite was arrested in the Gabon. After leading a coup in Gabon in August 2023, President Price Oligoy Nujima promised the Japon people a change from the old goalkeeper – although he was the cousin of the cooked president Ali Bongo. in RepublicBergès Mietté wonders whether it is possible to “build a new Gabon with those who have been tendering it for decades.”

Since his democratic election in April, Nujima has kept some loyalists from the Bongo regime who “managed to re -re -move to the Nujima system, which are working to reshape or even Torbido”, writes Mimi.

Ethiopian resistance in Somersrest. in New lines magazineand Mina Vincaranananan Reconsidering the cause of Hill Silasi in Ethiopia, who is in exile in the sleeping English city of Bath, known as the home of the author Jane Austin.

From Bath, where he lived between 1936 and 1940, Silasi plans to return against the Italian occupation. British organizations mobilized support, which ultimately allowed him to defeat the Benito Mosolini army. Selassi played a fundamental role in establishing the African Unity Organization, which was finally left by the African Union.