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Egypt, Ethiopia agree to resume technical discussions on Grand Renaissance Dam

A photo taken on March 31, 2015 shows the Grand Renaissance Dam under construction near the Sudanese-Ethiopia border. Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile in May 2013 to build the 6,000 megawatt dam, which will be Africa's largest when completed in 2017. The leaders of Egypt and Ethiopia promised on March 24 to boost cooperation on the Nile river and turn a page on a long-running row over Addis Ababa's controversial dam project. Egypt, heavily reliant for millennia on the Nile for agriculture and drinking water, feared that the Grand Renaissance Dam would decrease its water supply. AFP PHOTO / ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER
Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to resume technical discussions on Grand Renaissance Dam. (File photo: AFP)

Egypt, Ethiopia agree to resume technical discussions on Grand Renaissance Dam

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Egypt and Ethiopia’s leaders agreed on Thursday to the immediate resumption of the work by a technical committee trying to agree on the operating terms of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), an Egyptian presidency spokesman said.

The work of the committee had failed to produce agreement, causing a diplomatic dispute in recent weeks between the two nations. The dam is currently under construction on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile.

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