October 24 2019
Tensions with Egypt are on the rise after Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed warned that his country is prepared to go to war over its project to build a dam on the Nile river, reports Al Jazeera (Qatar). On Tuesday, Abiy told lawmakers that Ethiopia could mobilize millions of troops if Egypt threatened to use force to stop the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile in the northwest, not far from the border with Sudan. He emphasized that a conflict was...
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