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<p>Created page with &quot;Planned as Africa&#039;s largest hydroelectric installation, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of tension with Egypt&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia will res...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Planned as Africa's largest hydroelectric installation, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of tension with Egypt&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia will resume negotiations on Tuesday over the filling of a controversial mega-dam Addis Ababa is building over the Nile, Khartoum said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Irrigation and water ministers from the three Nile basin countries will meet via videoconference, Sudan's irrigation ministry said in a statement.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Three observers from the United States, the European Union and South Africa will attend,&quot; it added.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Planned as Africa's largest hydroelectric installation, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile has been a source of tension with Egypt ever since Ethiopia broke ground on the project in 2011.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Following nine years of stalled negotiations, [https://tarvelzone.bookmark.com/which-is-the-biggest-dam-in-india-by-water-storage-capacity https://tarvelzone.bookmark.com/which-is-the-biggest-dam-in-india-by-water-storage-capacity] the United States and the World Bank sponsored talks from November 2019 aimed at reaching an agreement between the three riparian states.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In May, Egypt announced it was re-entering talks over the filling of the dam's 74 billion cubic metre reservoir, in order &quot;to reach a fair, balanced and comprehensive agreement.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Earlier in May, Sudan had rejected an Ethiopian proposal to sign an initial agreement greenlighting the filling of the reservoir, citing outstanding &quot;legal and technical problems&quot;.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Both Khartoum and Cairo fear the 145-metre-high dam will threaten their essential water supplies once the reservoir starts being filled in July as planned by Addis Ababa.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;But while Egypt worries about its share of the Nile, upon which it depends for most of its water, Sudan hopes the dam could provide much-needed electricity and help regulate flooding.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The 6,600-kilometre-long (3,900-mile) Nile is a lifeline supplying both water and electricity to the 10 countries it traverses.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Its main tributaries, the White and Blue Niles, converge in the Sudanese capital Khartoum before flowing north through Egypt to drain into the Mediterranean Sea.&lt;br&gt;</div>

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