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In an interview with the Reporter, Ethiopia’s Water & Energy Minister affirmed that 15,000 Ethiopians have died in about 14 years of GERD construction.

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In the mind of the Ethiopia elite, 15,000 dead is too small of a price to pay for a project that props up their fragile ego.

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 12:38

In an interview with the Reporter, Ethiopia’s Water & Energy Minister affirmed that 15,000 Ethiopians have died in about 14 years of GERD construction.

Egypt and Sudan say Ethiopia's Nile dam is 'a threat to stability'

DPA

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/egy ... 19153.html

Thu, September 4, 2025


An aerial view taken from an airplane flying over Greater Cairo Area, shows the River Nile and the Ring Road Freeway between Helwan and Giza. Gehad Hamdy/dpa

Egypt and Sudan have said Ethiopia's controversial mega dam on the Nile poses a continued "threat to stability," in a statement released one week before the scheduled official inauguration of the dam.

The two sides agreed that the Ethiopian dam is in violation of international law, has serious repercussions for the two downstream countries and represents a continuing threat to the stability of the situation in the eastern Nile Basin in accordance with international law,

the two countries said.

In a joint statement released after a meeting of the Egyptian and Sudanese foreign and irrigation ministers in Cairo on Wednesday, they said that the dangers are due to

Ethiopia's unilateral moves to fill and operate the dam, concerns over the dam's safety, and the risks of of uncontrolled water releases and managing drought times.

Ethiopia must change its policy to restore cooperation between the three countries,

they added.

Sudanese and Egyptian water security is linked, the statement added, and the two nations

reaffirmed their complete rejection of any unilateral actions in the eastern Nile Basin that would harm their water interests.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a source of controversy and tensions between Ethiopia and the other riverside states Sudan and Egypt, even before Ethiopia began construction in 2011.

Ethiopia considers the dam as essential to its development and says it will produce enough electricity to provide power to millions of citizens. It has filled the dam over five stages between 2020 and 2024 and plans to inaugurate it on September 9.

Meanwhile, Egypt sees the dam as an existential threat and fears it would restrict its share of Nile water.

Egypt and Sudan are seeking a legally binding deal that would guarantee appropriate flows of water and a legal mechanism for resolving disputes before the dam starts operating.

Several attempts to reach an agreement on the dam's operation have failed.

Prosperity Party is derided by the citizens who are fed up with its gaslighting and political chicanery, labeling it with scathing monikers like:

Posture Party, Pretense Party, Pompous Party, Ploy Party, Poverty Party, Parade Party, Puffery Party, Pageant Party, Prattle Party, and Poppycock Party, among others.

Yet none capture its hollow grandstanding quite like

Potemkin Party.

Fiyameta wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 13:38

In the mind of the Ethiopia elite, 15,000 dead is too small of a price to pay for a project that props up their fragile ego.

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 12:38

In an interview with the Reporter, Ethiopia’s Water & Energy Minister affirmed that 15,000 Ethiopians have died in about 14 years of GERD construction.

Potemkin Party indeed

Whoever coined this name to refer to “Prosperity Party aka (poverty party)” is a genius

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 14:28

Prosperity Party is derided by the citizens who are fed up with its gaslighting and political chicanery, labeling it with scathing monikers like:

Posture Party, Pretense Party, Pompous Party, Ploy Party, Poverty Party, Parade Party, Puffery Party, Pageant Party, Prattle Party, and Poppycock Party, among others.

Yet none capture its hollow grandstanding quite like

Potemkin Party.

Fiyameta wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 13:38

In the mind of the Ethiopia elite, 15,000 dead is too small of a price to pay for a project that props up their fragile ego.

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 12:38

In an interview with the Reporter, Ethiopia’s Water & Energy Minister affirmed that 15,000 Ethiopians have died in about 14 years of GERD construction.

This is incredible. If we do the math and divide 15,000 by the number of days in 14 years, it means that 3 lives were getting lost every day for 5,000 days. Only in a primitive country like Ethiopia is this sort of total lack of consideration for human life tolerated!

Fiyameta wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 13:38

In the mind of the Ethiopia elite, 15,000 dead is too small of a price to pay for a project that props up their fragile ego.

Zmeselo wrote: ↑

04 Sep 2025, 12:38

In an interview with the Reporter, Ethiopia’s Water & Energy Minister affirmed that 15,000 Ethiopians have died in about 14 years of GERD construction.

During his 2012 interview with ESAT TV, Professor Donald N. Levine of University of Chicago's Department of Sociology, who studied Ethiopian history throughout his academic career, revealed a very dangerous mindset that exists among the Ethiopian elite, whose lazy-man's alternative to erasing the embarrassing stigma of being associated with man-made famine, abject poverty and shocking backwardness, is to exterminate 3 million Ethiopians in the name of "progress."

"..... I'll tell you an experience I had that signaled to me that terrible times were ahead for Ethiopia.

I had a student in Chicago, an Ethiopian (and this was around 1970-71) በጣም ጨዋ ልጅ, he was the son of an elite family, and he said, "a lot of us are thinking that we should do what they did in Russia to modernize."

And I said to him, do you know that in Russia what Stalin did cost the lives of 20 million people?

And here's what he said.....

"well, they had like 200 million people in Russia. So 20 million dead out of 200 million is 10%.
Ethiopia has about 30 million people, and 10% of that is 3 million people."
Then he said...
"3 million dead Ethiopians would not be too high of a price to pay for progress."

When he said that my heart stopped, because he's the representative of the educated group of Ethiopians who were so embarrassed to be poor, and to be backward that, they thought how can we modernize as fast as possible? And if that means killing 3 million people, so be it!

I'm afraid that kind of thinking is still to be found even today.