Ethiopian Informer
ADDIS ABABA: August 31 (EI) – Ethiopia’s Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Seleshi Bekele, has said that Egypt officially requested that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to be
According to the Middle East Monitor (MEM), the Ethiopian minister also disclosed that the issue, along with several others, will be discussed in a meeting between Egyptian and Sudanese officials slated to take place next month.
The report also quoted Seleshi as saying that the Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohammed Abdel-Ati, to have recently passed to Ethiopia a study regarding the issue of filling the dam.
“The study requests that the dam should be filled in seven years,” MEM quoted Seleshi as saying, adding that his country replied to Egypt’s study but giving no further details.
MEM, however, didn’t disclose neither the circumstances nor when and where the Ethiopian minister made the remarks, which also asserted that the GERD would start producing electricity after 15 months and work would be officially completed by 2023.
