Nile Dam Dispute: Can Egypt and Ethiopia Strike a Deal? 

God bless Ethiopia!!!

It’s like someone coming to your house and telling you to leave your bed for them and they telling you to sleep on the floor or asking you to leave your house 👌🏽👏👏👏👏👌🏽😂😂😂😂😂

We all Egyptians respect the Ethiopians right for prosperity and development what we aim to is to reach a fair agreement to share the water there's an international agreement for rivers all over the world I think people should spread the good among ,thanks wish you all the best

We don't need to agree its our dam its our river its our money so we have the right to development. Egyptians instead of crying need to think about 60% of Ethiopians with out electric light

This is 110 millions ethiopians life. Egypt should leave ethiopians alone.

Fair deal in Egypt’s vocabulary is maintaining the obsolete colonial era agreement which Ethiopia has no knowledge of , and keeping Egypt’s hydro hegemony that has given 55 billion cubic meter water every year to the very country that doesn’t contributed even a drop of water. 86% of the water comes from Ethiopia’s highlands. How could one would move forward with backward looking and stubborn approach from Egypt.

No one tells us what are we doing our dams. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 government and Ethiopian people make a decision!!!!!!

you like it or not we are going to do it

Share the water ! Long live Africa ! Egypt respect the people of Africa. !

Ethiopians are not scared of Egypt Historically Egypt has tried to invade Ethiopia twice the last time in 19 century and was defeated twice by Ethiopia. Read your history.

I’ve been watching them delete pro-Ethiopia comments from this video.

Egypt loses 10b cubic litre per year through evaporation from the Aswan dam, Ethiopia wants 4.9b cubic litre this year. Egypt says its a matter of life and death. Well, the choice is yours and we are going to fill the Dam regardless.

Egypt says Nile is live and death matter,yes you are right but Ethiopia have suffered for many years while Egypt grow her economy by Ethiopian natural Resource so it is life and death for all us Ethiopians to. Egypt should have helped Ethiopian on 3 FAMINE that took many lives because of dry land and need for clean water.

Of course the dam is gonna be FILLED regardless!!

Pretty sure its within Ethiopia's border's they can do what they please.... Why doesn't Egypt take after the Israelis and implement water irrigation and purification from Red Sea and Mediterranean sea, rather than a false-entitlement to waters outside its border.

Ethiopians comprise by making a phase to fill up the dam through the coming years. The counter argument from Egypt is nothing except not to build the dam. So where is the fair deal ? Ethiopians have all the right to use the God given resources for their advantage. Pls go ahead and built it. Comment from neighboring Eritrea.

በሀገራችን የጋዜጠኝነትና ስነጽሁፍ ስራ ከሆነው ውስጥ አንዱ፣ ዋነኛውና በዘለቄታ መሰራት ያለበት በአለም ገናና እና የስልጣኔ ምንጪ የሆነ፣ ከእኛ የሚፈልቅና ከ86 በመቶ በላይ ውሃው ከእኛ የሆነ የአባይ ወንዝና አስደናቂው፤ ለምለሙና ለሙ ሸለቆ ሲሆን በአፍሪካ በአንደኛ ደረጃና በአለም አሉ ከሚባሉ ጥቂት ሀይቆች ውስጥ በከፍተኛ አንደኛ የሆነ የጣና ሀይቅ ጉዳይ ነው፡፡ እኛ ሰነፎች፣ ደካሞችና ጅሎች ስለሆን አባይ በጠላታችን በሰው አራጅና ከሀዲ በግብጽ መጠቀሚያና ይባስ ብሎ አረምም ስለናቀን ጣና ደግሞ በእምቦጭ አረም እየጠፋ ሲሆን በተራ ወሬና በዝምታ መመልከትና መትበስበስ ሆኗል ከእኛ ዘንድ ነገሩ፡፡ ለመሆኑ ከ709 በላይ ብሄረሰብ የሚኖርባትና በከባድና ውስብስብ በሆነ ውስጣዊ የዘረኛት፣ የብሄረሰብ፣ የጎሳ፣ የፖለቲካና ማህበራዊ ችግር እየታመሰች የምትገኝ ራሷን ያጣችና የካደች የአረቦች መገልገያ እቃ ባሪያ ሱዳን አንድም ማንኪያ ውሃ በአባይ ወንዝ ሳትጨምር ከምትጠቀም ግብጽ ጋር የራሷንም መብት አሳልፋ በመስጠት በ1959 የተስማማችና ውል የተፈራረመች ስትሆን የውሃው ባለቤት ከሆነች ከኢትዮጵያ ጋር በግል አልስማማም ማለቷ ግን ለሚከተለው ነገር ጥቃቱና ጉዳቱ በራሷ ላይ እንደሚሆም ከአሁኑ ማወቅ አለባት፡፡ ግብጽና ሱዳን በ1959 ያደረጉት ስምምነት በሁለቱ መካከል ብቻ ስለሆነ የራሳቸው ጉዳይ ሲሆን ሱዳን ግን የውሃው ባለቤት ከሆነች ከኢትዮጵያ ጋር በህል አልስማማም ማለቷ የግብጽ ባሪያና አገልጋይ እቃ መሆኗን ለማስመስከር ሲሆን በኢትዮጵያ በኩል ግን ቀባይነት የሌለው ነው፡፡ ስለሆነም በየትም ሀገርና የትም ቦታ አንድ የውሃው ተፈፋሰስ ሀገር ለሌላ ተፋሰስ ሀገር በራሱ ግዛት ያለን ውሃ ለመጠቀምም ሆነ ከራሱ ግዛት ውሃ ለሌላ ሀገር ለመስጠት ፈቃድ የጠየቀም ሆነ የውሃ መጠን ኮታ ለመስጠት የፈረመ የለም እና በኢትዮጵያ በኩል ውሃዋን በነጸ ለመስጠት የውሃ ኮታ መጠን አንድ ሊትርም ቢሆን በተለይም ከግብጽ ጋር በጪራሽ መፈራረም የለባትም፤ ህዝብ በጪራሽ ስለማይቀበለው አታደርገውምም፡፡ ያለህዝብ ስምምነትና ውሳኔ አባይን በተመለከተ ምንም ነገር መደረግ የሌለበት ሲሆን ውሃን በነጻ ለመስጠት አስገዳጅ የሆነ ፊርማ መፈረም ግን በጪራሽ በሀሳብም ደረጃ የሌለና ምን ጊዜም የማይሆንና ተቀባይነት የሌለው ነው፡፡ ትግሪስና ኤፍራቲን ወንዞች በተመለከተ ቱርክ በግዛቷ ላይ ተቆጥሮ የማያልቅ ግድብ ስትገነባና በመስኖ ስትጠቀም ከታች ተፋሰስ ሀገሮች ከሶሪያም ሆነ ኢራቅ ፈቃድ ለመጠየቅም ሆነ ለመስማማት ቀርቶ በሀሰብ ደረጃም ሳታስበው የምተሰራው የእለት በእለት ጠቃሚና መልካም ስራዋ ነው፡፡ ህንድ ውሃዋን በተመለከተ እንደፈለጋት የምትጠቀም እንጂ ከፓኪስታንም ሆነ ባንግላዴሽና ሌሎች የታች ተፋሰስ ሀገሮች ጋር ውይይት፣ ስምምነት፣ የውሃ ኮታ መጠን፣ ፊርማና ሌላ ነገር የምትለው በሀሳብ ደረጃም የለም፡፡ ቻይና 20 ሺህ ሜዋ የሚያመነጭን ጨምሮ ያንን ሁሉ ግድብ በወንዞቿ ላይ ስትገነባና 23 ሺህ ሜዋ የሚያመነጪን በመስራት ላይ ስትሆን ከ5 በላይ የሆኑ የታች ተፋሰስ ሀገሮችን ፈቃድ ለመጠየቅ፣ የውሃ መጠን ኮታ ለመስማማትም ሆነ ውሃዋን በነጻ ለመስጠየት ከማንም ጋር ምንም የምታደርግ አይደለችም፡፡ እስራኤል የሊባኖስን፣ ሶሪያንና የዮርዳኖስን ውሃ ስትጠቀም ፈቃድ ጠይቃ አይደለም፡፡ በመላው አለም ወንዞችን በተመለከተ ሁኔታው በዚህ መልክ የሚሆን ነው፡፡ ታዲያ የአባይን ወንዝ በተመለከተ ሁኔታው ከአለም በተለየና የውሃው ባለቤት የሆኑትን የሚጎዳ እንዲሆን ሀሳቡን ያመጣው ማን ነው? ይህስ የሆነበት ምክንያት ምንድን ነው? መልሱ ሌላ ሳይሆነ ነቀርሳ እንግሊዝ ጥቁርን ህዝብ ለመጉዳት ዘረኛነቷ የፈጠረው መርዝ ሲሆን የእኛ ጅልነት፣ ደካማነትና ልፍስፍስነት ነው በእኛ ውሃ ላይ ህልውናዋ ሙሉ በሙሉ ጥገኛ የሆነች የበርሀ ሰይጣን ግብጽ ለአመታት ወንበዴወችንና አሸባሪዎችን በመፍጠርና በመርዳት ጭምር በተለያየ መንገድ በሀገራችንና ህዝባችን ላይ ጉዳት እያደረሰችብን የምትገኝ፡፡ ኤርትራ ከኢትዮጵያ እንድትገነጠልና የባህር በር እንድታጣ ያደረገች በእሷ መሪነት እንግሊዝን ጨምሮ በውጪ ጠላቶች እገዛ ነው፡፡ ይህንም እያደረገች ጠላት የሆነች ግብጽ በበርሃ ቦታ በሊትር በአንድ ዶላር ሂሳብ ቢሸጥ ከ55 ትሪሊዮን ዶላር በላይ በየአመቱ ገቢ የሚያስገኝልንን ውሃ በነጻ ለማግኘትና ከእኛ ዘንድ ድርቅ ሲሆን ለእነሱ ግን ውሃ መጠኑ ሳይቀንስ ሁሌም እንዲደርሳቸው የሚያስችልን ፈርሙ የሚሉን ናቸው፡፡ የምንሰጣቸውን አንድ ሊትርም ቢሆን በደስታና በምስጋና መቀበልና ወዳጅ መሆን የሚገባቸው ነገር ግን በእኛ ድክመት፣ ጅልነትና ተራነት ንቀውን በነጻ የምትሰጡኝ ውሃ መጠኑ ይህን ያህል መሆን አለበት፣ በድርቅ ወቅትም እናንተ ትደርቃላችሁ እንጂ ውሀ ግን ላትቀንሱብኝ ፈርሙና ግድቡን እኔም መቆጣጠር አለብኝና ሌላም የሚሉን ናቸው፡፡ አስዋን ግድብ በእኛ ውሃ ገድበው ሀይል ማመንጨትን ጨምሮ እንደፈለጋቸው እየተጠቀሙ ነገር ግን ስለህዳሴ ግድብ ያገባናል የሚሉን ሲሆኑ ችግሩ እነሱ ሳይሆኑ እኛ ነን፡፡ ንቀውን ሲሆን አሁንም የማንነቃና ሰው የማንሆን ጅሎች ነን፡፡ ስለሆነም ስለሌላው ነገር መደስኮርን አቁሙና እንደ ዘመኑ ሰው በመሆን ቁም ነገር አውሩና በተለይም በተግባር ሰሩ፡፡ እምቦጭን ከጣና አጥፉ፡፡ አረምን በመንቀል ለማጥፋት እንዴት ያቅታችኋል፤ ከአረም ያነሳችሁ ከንቱዎች ካልሆናችሁ በስተቀር፡፡ ህዳሴ ግድብንም ሆነ አባይን በተመለከተ ከማንም ጋር ምንም አይነት ፊርማ ኢትዮጵያ መፈረም የለባትም፡፡ ሱዳን በ1959 ከግብጽ ጋር የተስማማች ስለሆነች ከኢትዮጵያም ጋር በተናጠል መስማማት አለባት፡፡ አልስማማም ካለች ግን ለግብጽ አጋዥ ሆናለች ማለት ሲሆን የሱዳን ህዝብ ግን አረቦችን የሚጠላና ከኢትዮጵያ ጋር የወገነ መሆኑ ታውቆ በኢትዮጵያ በኩል ከሱዳን ህዝብ ጋር ብዙ ስራ መስራትና ጉዳዩን ለህዝብ ማሳወቅ የሚያስችል ስራ መስራት ይገባል

Most of ethiopian peoples currently didn't have electricity service we can agree with fair distribution, unless don't forget as we built the dam with our blood

Ethiopia contribute 87% of Nile water and 0% Use. Egypt Contrubute 0% water and Use 100%. Who is selfish?!

I am glad our government was nagging some times forced us to collect money from each of Ethiopians salary to build this huge industry for several years. We can’t wait to see when it start .

They say Egypt is entirely dependent on Nile for it's water needs,why would anyone depend entirely on a river when they know 86% of the water comes from within the boarder of another sovereign country(Ethiopia) which they don't even share boarder with?

Deal or no Deal 👍 proudly Ethiopia

This Egyptian guy saying outside forces the outside force trying to destabilize Ethiopia is Egypt. Rise up Africans protect black Africa now ✊🏾

Fill the Dam. There is no question!

We already started filling the dam ... and for our brothers and sisters in Sudan and Egypt, we will not do anything that will harm our families but you should also behave in some ways. And don’t run to other continents ( USA , EU ) for solution, be a man and deal with your situation. I think this is the disadvantage of being colonised !

The Egyptian literally are telling Ethiopian, we were prospering using Nile and you were living in poverty so far, lets just stay that way. why are you doing this & causing trouble? Lets live in peace.

The dam was filed in just two days ... so this indicates the fear that was drummed up for years was exaggerated.

I absolutely love how all of this comment section is from Ethopians and all the views are also probably Ethopian, No electricity i agree

Yes, it should be an active discussion, as Ethiopia continues to complete and fill the dam as it wishes. No other country in the world even opens discussions on how to use the rivers within said country's borders but we have tolerated you're delaying enough. Talks happen as the dam is drinking it's fill of a river longed by it's people for millennia.

Egyptians never know what fair means! Egypt's contribution to the nile water is 0% but it has been consuming 55 billion cubic meter of water annually. Ethiopia contributes 86% of the Nile water and the source of the nile is in it's territory but it was not part of the 1929 and 1959 Egypt and Sudan treaty...and its share is 0%! That is what they call it fair! We never had and will never have the desire and to control the Nile flow or devoid of water to Egypt and Sudan. But, we have a full right to utilize our resource and we don't need to ask anybody's permission to do that. God gave the river to all the nations: Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and the other Nile basin countries! It is enough for all of us if we come together and talk in a civilized manner rather than plotting conspiracy and military intimidatations which Egyptians have been implementing for decades. Now it is enough!!!

The Nile is one of more than 260 so-called “international drainage basins” throughout the world where water and related resources are shared between two or more nation states. Therefore, the Nile River must be used and treated the same way other countries in other regions and continents are doing with other 259 international basins located in each and every country individually as well as on the basin levels collectively. The Nile river issues have to be seen and solved the same way with other 259 international rivers basins. That means there is no what so ever any reason and also no one will allow that the Nile River issues have to be seen or treated differently than other 259 international basin rivers worldwide are. UN or any other bodies must see the picture this way, not being hijacked by the known trouble maker Tiny England that promised weeks ago her alliance with Egypt though its foreign minister saying she will side and coordinate with Egypt regarding The Nile. We know that faraway tiny country is behind all this including using/sabotaging/manipulating the UN, EU, USA and so on. We know the Enemies of Africa are siding with Egypt not to benefit Egypt but to hurt blacks/Africa by stopping/disallowing using their own resources that would make them developed and self reliance. Tiny, faraway, resources empty and possibilities dry England has no other things to do but this is her.....causing troubles in other countries, regions making them hurt each other with hope she can benefit from as it was the case in the past 500 years. But this is a very different world. They must swallow that even though it is very hard to do for them.

It's funny how the Egyptian representative said "Negotiations is all about giving and taking" If I am not mistaken you are not giving us anything in return, ofcourse except the constant headache

How is India using and treating her transboundary rivers in her territory? What about China, Turkey, Russia, USA, Canada, Latina America and all nations world wide? Is there any transboundary water agreement between nations and how it looks like? So, any Nile water agreement between the Nile basin nations has to be the same way with other transboundary rivers in other regions and continents. There will be no what so ever a different kind of treatment or agreement dealing with the Nile river issues but the same way going on with other rivers worldwide. Egypt is not even bordering with Ethiopia. It is thousands km away from the Ethiopian highland where the Nile comes from. So, she has to deal with a country bordering her, not with Ethiopia.

انا وحد من مصر بحب مصر ام الدنيا و الهيزعل مصر مصر هتوب عليه لازم كل مواطن في مصر يحمي البلط حقو يا شباب يا بنات انا طفل مش شب كبير يعني شوفو الطفل بيقول ايه عن مصر و نكون اهم بلد في العالم يا رب انشاء الله

It's our dam, it's our Nile soooo we're gonna fill it soon!!!! No one's gonna stop us .

About the dry seasons, we are talking the dry season is in Ethiopia, not Sudan and Egypt which doesn't receive much natural rainfall. That means while Ethiopia is in a dry period and itself is in critical water shortage the Egyptians need we release water from the reservoir for them. If they need this that means our dam will be their reservoir and they have to pay for that service.

I feel really sorry for those who seat for negotiation with Egypt. It is difficult to negotiate with someone who knows the truth but run away from the truth and trying to be an obstacle for the dam. The Nile river has dozen of sources (branches), if Ethiopia uses those source for irrigation, Egypt will receive very minimal water amount but Ethiopia didn't do that. Ethiopia has so many other ways to utilize the river if they want to hurt Egypt but Ethiopia is a God fearing country that never intended to hurt anyone.

Egypt Behold, therefore I [am] against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste [and] desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

This dam will save life when there is a drought thanks to the reservoir, in my opinion they should be grateful.

It's my dam It's my land It's my water Deal or no deal Of course the dam is going to be filli very short period of times Their is no force can stop me filling my dam

Why don’t Egypt use the water from Red Sea and leave Ethiopia with her water - No agreement needed!!!

Everytime there is a power outage in Ethiopia i think to my self DAM!!!

Its my dam ethopay/100/

A 1959 treaty that doesn't even include Ethiopia. That was a treaty designed and built by Coloneal invaders structured for the benefit of Egypt leaving Ethiopia as a observer on our own water. And then they dare bring up a comment regarding a fair deal.

The Egyptian feel entitled, I’m not sure as to why they think entitled. Regardless the filling of the DAM will go ahead, what’s so hard to understand? Egypt has been the sole beneficiary of the Nile for centuries about time we benefited from the Nile.

The power of Ethiopia Egypt if you can buy oil you can buy water 💯

I think the journalist is trying to angry the countries especially Ethiopia and Egypt and they are easily falling for it.He should try make peace. I don't know what he try to accomplish here.

Dear engineer Gedion thank you for representing my country.

As usual Ethiopia's stand is well-represented by Dr Gedion, very short on the moderator giving equal time to explain their points on each topic.

We build it with our money not from imf and we start filling the dam now!!

The Nile begins in Ethiopia, what we choose to do with our water is our business. You don’t see Ethiopians asking about the natural resources of Egypt, so why does Egypt feel entitled the Niles water? Just because their dependant on it?

In fact Egypt can live with out Nile river. As studies shows, Egypt has the largest water recourse better than any African nations. The problem in here is that Egyptians considered themselves as Nile river is created for them. This is absolutely insane. Egyptians should believe that Nile is a river comes from the upstream countries mainly from Ethiopian. We Ethiopians need to have electricity, irrigation and the likes from the rive originated from our land. Blue Nile is a gift of Ethiopians believe you or not. If it were a gift of Egyptians it would have been created over there. We fill our Life changing Dam and have our people electricity very soon. GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA AND OUR GREEN YELLOW AND RED FLAG AMEN

I like the background of screen from Addis Ababa 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

Egypt should learn a lesson and stop taking in house issues outside Africa

Ethiophian land, Ethiophian dam, Ethiophian rain, Ethiophian river. What do we even discuss here?

Ethiopia is fair & kind , never hurts Sudan or Egypt take a deal, Egypt stop complainingbe thankful go help this Dam as we helped you for so many years giving you all you need ,

We can only speak about 'fair agreement for all' once there is a fair use of water agreement in place, which we do not have. It is difficult to negotiate with someone who states "everyone deserves fair use" but continues to use a colonial era agreement to claim historic hegemony - Treaty signed by Anglo-Sudan and Anglo-Egypt (1929), - agreement entered between Sudan and Egypt, blatantly ignoring all of the downstream countries(1959) giving Egypt 68%, Sudan 38% and the rest to evaporation, - and UN International Water Resource Guidelines, The Law of Transboundary Aquifers, which outlines "a concrete step forward towards the peaceful sharing of groundwater resources", SHARING here being the operative word, which as it stands there is no agreements that state share of the Nile. Besides the fact that these countries (Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan) neither ratified nor signed this agreement. FACT: This dam is a none-consumption project, we are not talking about water sharing yet. Ones we start talking about SHARING, we can all start reciting UN treaties. It is important to remember, the only reason Ethiopia is in this conversation is out of goodwill. Until then let us take a moment to appropriation an African country has funded and built one of the biggest hydro-dams in the world, which will help millions of African's, a true pan-African project.

It's my dam it's my water it's my land no one will tell us what to do. And you like it or not we are going to do it

We will go ahead and fill the dam period!!!

It is My Dam 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹💪💪💪

Okay, If Ethiopia wants to build a dam they can build one to generate electricity. But why do they need to build one that generates more electricity than they need? 32.5% of Egyptians live below the poverty while in Ethiopia only 22% live below the poverty line. Now, if the resource Egyptians purely rely on decreases its production by 14% can you imagine what their poverty situation would look like? I am well aware that Ethiopia has a great deal of poverty as well but generating electricity in their country can increase the poverty rate in Egypt as well as decrease the employment rate (since they rely on farming). So who is the selfish country in this case? Increasing poverty in another country to produce electricity (that is more than needed for your own country and also not a basic life necessity) for your country. There are other solutions to this electricity situation. Rather than spending 5 billion dollars on a dam, it could've been used for renewable energy products (solar/wind/geothermal) , nuclear energy projects, and fossil fuel energy projects, all of which are reliable sources of electricity. But willingly making a country go into poverty just for your own country's benefit?

It is a very good program. However, what I had noticed is the general public of Egypt is not well informed about this issue. First fillings are totally out of a question they will not have much impact on any country. The other thing is the excellent hydrology in the basin favor this filling. It is not really about the river or technical issues it is a politics that poison the Nile.

Nothing will stop 🛑 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 ✊🏿 💯 from building the Dam .

Ethiopians dont have the intention to be a treat for the brotherly people of Egypt. But F.I.Y let alone on this river, Ethiopia has the right and the capacity to build dams and fill water on any of its river whether any allies or foes like it or not

We did it 🇪🇹🇪🇹💡💡🇪🇹🇪🇹💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

The only water source for Egypt is the Nile River, where it contributes to 98 percent of Egypt's water. Egypt has already agreed with Ethiopia to build the dam, but without affecting the water of Egypt, Ethiopia has refused to extend the period of the dam’s mound to 7 years, as Egypt has requested, so that the damage is minimized, given that Egypt Ethiopia suffers from water poverty, do not understand that their problem is electricity, while Egypt's problem is water, and thus it threatens the lives of 100 million Egyptians and threatens agriculture

Egypt have 15 days to deal with Ethiopia after this days Ethiopia start fillies water. Ethiopia always peace maker

Ethiopia will not go hungry for Egyptian to live anymore. 1) Egypt has huge ground water resources to sustain all Egyptian for thousands of years. They need to Utilize that. Good example. using ground water is Libya. 2) water desalination plants. using Red Sea and Mediterranean see. Good example using desalination water is, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Egyptian should do that for the sake of the ppl of Egyptian and for 11 other African countries. Because population is booming. They gone ask for their fare share as well.

Ethiopia should and will start filling using the rainfall, its common sense.if not now it will have to wait for the next rainy season , egypt wants to unreasonably postpone/extend the starting/duration of filling the dam, this shouldnt be used for domestic politcs .

That is my dam

The Nile is life for Ethiopia also a lot of people in poverty in Ethiopia so do you think its not important for Ethiopia. Egyptian must stop your selfish way

Ethiopia has the support of all of Africa to fill the dam now power to black Africans

we need fresh water,electricy and economic development of our people,

The host is bias and of course Egyptians have taken advantage of the Nile without considering Ethiopia for extremely long time now is not the time to be neighborly

Having an agreement will never be a prerequisite to fill the dam!! anyday now

Egypt and Ethiopia will not strike a deal unless Egypt face reality. Because Egypt has been beneficiary of the Abay(Nile) river, it doesn't mean that is theirs. They should thank Ethiopia for allowing Egypt to use the water freely for many years. Now, Ethiopia wants to use the water for hydro and Egypt need to come to terms and accept the reality. Egypt can purchase allocated water from Ethiopia in addition to buying foods from Ethiopia on discounted rate. Egypt can't claim what is not theirs. It is absurd and stupid.

Of course they can make a deal. They are intellegent people.

Ethiopia has right to use the Ethiopian water .

its our water, its our dam and its gonna be filled regardless

If Egypt brags about the Nile being it's 90% of water, it should not play with it! In fact, it should tread very carefully!

TURKEY CONSULTED NO ONE WHEN BUILDING DAMS ON THE EUPHRATES RIVER.

All i am going to say is that Egypt starting a war is like committing suicide. Once u start a war, all bet is off on Nile, and Ethiopia will do whatever else it wants with it.

Egypt had nothing to say in the past when took most of the Rivers share during the colonial era treaty w/c included Egypt and Sudan, but when we(source for about 85% of Nile) start to use she gets worked up and talks about fair share. we all know what Egypt mean by "fair".

Ethiopia was without water and electricity for the past 3000 years while Egypt was gaining with everTHING from the Nile River that starts in Ethiopia-- Every other country was not dealing with Ethiopia to help resolving why there was draught and famine while that land was supposed to be the richest land with Gods gift!!! Now it is Ethiopia’s turn. Egypt back off!,,

Ethiopian has 100% right to use the nail because God blessed ethiopian with nail river. When we built what were you expecting. Not to fill? Let's fill our dam many ethiopians mothers living in the darkness kids don't study nights cuz we don't have electricity.let's fill it!!!

Why build dams to make power when you can make power out of any slow moving river or stream by installing a slow speed water power turbines. Wateroter made in Canada makes power in slow moving water and won't harm fish. Next by adding an atmospheric water generators that makes water out of the air, you can make clean drinking water and less filtered irrigation water anywhere you have moving water. These are off the shelf products and can be applied to make food, power and water. We can do this, the World can do this. I don't work for or sell any of these ideas or products.

Egypt is strong 💪🇪🇬

if it was still KEMET land of the black, wouldn't be a problem, remember these people are foreigners, do your thing Ethiopia, these people wouldn't bow to you if reversed

We not allowed UN negotiate African problem The "Nile" river is enough for us but this Egyptian Gus keep says this issues rise conflict. It is going to be just talk.

so Egypt build their dam without asking any one and don't contribute a glass of water to Nile river and asking Ethiopia can't build the dam first and now can't fill it now what's next..... regardles the fact is we still do what we want with it and you know about it

What are the goals of building the dam? Can some one educate me please?

80% goes in the Mediterranean... its not a water problem, its a geopolitical one

Make Ethiopia Great.

What about a former Prime Minister/MELES ZENAWI put the Offer on the table 2011 for Egypt 🇪🇬 officials Government.. That was a right time table to took about your interest 🇪🇬 Egypt is running everywhere to start a war?!!! For a record Ethiopian and Egypt been in the war 2 times 😡👎🏻

And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

Ethiopians trust one another even through multiple cultures. We're beautifully understood Christian, Muslim & Judaism values and prioritized investing in the characters of our people. ”

Why you are fixated on filling issue? The dispute is on the future use of the river and governace of the basin? Egypt leaders are denying the truth to their peoples.

Thank you for mentioning how long it took to build a dam ' a decade.' What was doing Egypt at this time; using old tactics 'blocking the building of a dam. By using the name of 'diplomacy', look for a neo-colonial sponsorship, as it has done it in the colonial period. Instead of looking other options conserving water and other solution to compensate the water loss, when Ethiopia starts filling the dam. So my advise to Egypt is that, grow out of crying like a baby saying ' all is mine' a fairy tale that was told her by it's colonizers. Coming together with the Nile children to cheers the water is a wisdom.

When it comes to Ethiopia fear deal . why they didn't say fair deal this all thousand yrs While they used the water alone by excluding Ethiopia unfairly ? So what?

There is no such things to enforce Ethiopia to stop filling there dam the resource comes from ethiopian Egypt should pay for ethiopian