Egypt's Sisi warns Ethiopia dam risks 'unimaginable instability'

Ismailia, Egypt (AFP) March 30, 2021

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that Ethiopia's enormous dam project, upstream on the Nile, risked causing "unimaginable instability". The dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been simmering for around a decade and mediation attempts with downstream Egypt and Sudan have repeatedly failed. "Nobody will be permitted to take a single drop of Egy