River Nile

Mr Beleke says Ethiopia does not need anyone’s permission to benefit from its natural resources. Ethiopian minister of water, electricity and irrigation, Seleshi Bekele, after a meeting (between countries that share the Nile) which ended without an agreement, said despite warnings from Egypt it would continue with the construction of its huge hydro dam on the Nile. Egypt’s president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, had recently issued a stern warning to Ethiopia concerning its Renaissance Dam on the Nile, as construction…