Over the past three decades, the Horn of Africa has acquired a bad reputation as a notoriously unstable subregion with a highly volatile socio-political framework.
This region can only be described as one at war with itself, owing to a number of issues from tribal and clan dynamics to historical injustices. Therefore, the solution for instability should be sourced from within – as only the insiders can truly understand and contextualise the full extent of their problems.
CAIRO- 19 April 2021: A day after Addis Ababa announced that two bottom outlets of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have gone operational in preparation for implementing the second dam filling, Egypt revealed technical errors in the Ethiopian plan.
The Ethiopian claim that the two GERD bottom outlets are capable of enabling average flow of Blue Nile is incorrect, the Egyptian ministry said.
The two countries are downstream of the GERD and have refused a data exchange initiative by Ethiopia before the second filling of the dam during the upcoming rainy season.
“unilateral measures could harm the two downstream countries, due to the absence of a clear coordination mechanism between the three countries within the framework of a fair and binding legal agreement.”
