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Operating GERD and negotiating regional electricity exports
Ethiopia flipped the switch on Africa's largest dam September 9, 2025, without Egypt's blessing. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam holds 74 billion cubic meters of water—enough to double Ethiopia's power output and, Egypt fears, strangle the Nile River that 107 million Egyptians depend on for nearly all their freshwater. Fourteen years of construction, funded almost entirely by Ethiopian citizens buying bonds and donating paychecks, delivered 5,150 megawatts of capacity. Egypt called it an existential threat and demanded a binding water-sharing treaty. Ethiopia built it anyway.
Updated Jan 7
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