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“Attempts made by Sudan and Egypt to take the GERD issue to the UN Peace and Security Council by mobilizing the League of the Arab States would unnecessarily internationalize and securitize the matter,” she said before adding, “However, the GERD is purely a development project and also a source of cooperation to the Nile riparian countries. It is a symbol of equitable and reasonable utilization and common aspirations of the riparian countries to utilize their common resource.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GERD is a hydropower project launched in 2011 on the Blue Nile\u2014a significant Nile tributary with a project cost of $4.6 billion. The GERD generates 6.4-GW (6450MW) after completion. Last year, in the first filling the Dam\u2019s reservoir retained 4.9 cubic metres of water without \u201cinterrupting the continuous flow of water to the lower basin.\u201d The second year filling of this year is anticipated this summer would boost the reservoir\u2019s volume to reach to 18.4 km3 by retaining 13.5 billion cubic metres of water. This enables some of the installed turbines to start operation and generate some power. The construction of the GERD is on progress; now the GERD has reached more than 80% of its total completion. A 650-km transmission line has also been erected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
TIGRAY<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the conflict in Tigray, Ambassador Alemtsehay, said the unilateral ceasefire decision by the Ethiopian government was dor humanitarian reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This was done deliberately mainly to benefit the whole people in Tigray to access Humanitarian supports and to allow the farmers to use the rainy season, which starts from July to September of the year, to plough their land safely by avoiding sporadic clashes with TPLF,” Ambassador Alemtsehay said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also revealed that, “the TPLF group\u2019s being a national threat is neutralised and the group is incapable of fighting the Ethiopian army.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n GENERAL ELECTION<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ethiopia recently held an election in which the prosperity party – led by the Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed won the majority of the vote and was declared a winner of the six term election with a landslide victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ambassador Alemtsehay used the occasion to hit out at international media who she said ‘have consistently been playing a negative role with the regard to their coverage of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “They have disclosed themselves as biased, one-sided and superficial to African issues. Similarly, they have continued to undermine the credible work of the Election process both the Election Commission and the government. The International Media looks Africa in a very skewed perspective and wanted to portray Africa as a continent filled with chaos, civil war, undemocratic leadership and full of evil,” Ambassador Alemtsehay said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She advised the media in Africa not to rely on reports by foreign journalists, but seek clarity from embassies on the facts in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Her Excellency, Ambassador Alemtsehay Meseret, the Ethiopian Ambassador to Uganda has said Addis Ababa trusts Kampala’s commitment to the Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA). The CFA, also known as the Entebbe Agreement, has been signed by six out of the 10 Nile Basin Initiative states. The signatories are\u00a0Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi. Ambassador Alemtsehay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":25024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-25020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/55645817_303.jpg\")
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