mega-dam

Ethiopia’s decision to start the next phase of filling a controversial mega-dam on the Nile River has angered Egyptian authorities raising tensions ahead of an upcoming UN Security Council on the issue.

Egypt said the move was ‘a violation of international laws and norms that regulate projects built on the shared basins of international rivers,’ and had expressed its “firm rejection of this unilateral measure’, its irrigation ministry said in a statement sighted by Africa Daily News, New York yesterday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is set to be Africa’s …