The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it considers Ethiopia\u2019s announcement of the operation of the Renaissance Dam a \u201cviolation of the Declaration of Principles Agreement signed in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ethiopia officially launched on Sunday the first electricity production of the Great Renaissance Dam (GERD) with a capacity of 375 megawatts.<\/p>\n
The official launch of the first operation of this mega-dam was presided over by Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed in the presence of several senior officials.<\/p>\n
According to Egyptian diplomacy, the unilateral operation of the Renaissance Dam \u201cis a further step by Ethiopia in violating its obligations under the 2015 Declaration of Principles Agreement signed by the Ethiopian Prime Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday hailed the launch of the electricity generation process from the Renaissance Dam, congratulating citizens on such an achievement.<\/p>\n
In a tweet, Abiy Ahmed said that \u201ctoday, the first turbine of the Renaissance Dam, the largest power plant in Africa, has started generating electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis step is good news for our continent and the downstream countries we plan to work with,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
By July 2021, Ethiopia had completed the second filling of the Grand Renaissance Dam with over 13.9 billion cubic meters of water.<\/p>\n
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is, since the launch of the project in 2011, a serious bone of contention with Sudan and Egypt.<\/p>\n
\u201cCairo invokes a \u201chistorical right\u201d on the Nile, guaranteed since a treaty signed in 1929 between Egypt and Sudan, then represented by Britain, the former colonial power. Egypt had obtained a right of veto on the construction of projects on the river,\u201d Egypt foreign minister said.<\/p>\n
In 1959, after an agreement with Khartoum on the sharing of water from the Nile, Egypt was allocated a quota of 66 percent of the annual flow of the Nile, against 22 percent for Sudan.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia was not a party to these agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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