Ethiopian engineers have filled the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa’s largest and most controversial hydroelectric project, for a second year.
Ethiopians hope the dam will provide electricity and lift them out of poverty.
But Sudan and Egypt, which lie downstream of the dam, are afraid it will lessen their water supplies and want all three countries to agree on a deal.
Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi has more from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia winning every Evert God bless Ethiopian God bless Africans well done keep gone my Mother Land my loved country
It’s my dam long for Ethiopian
who cares about bad neighbors
Indeed it’s a mile stone to Ethiopia and the African continent. We all should celebrate. All downstream nations should finance the DAM. This is African power specially to the Horn of African nations.
Finally a fair reporting by Al Jazeera. Thx.
Catherine, you keep saying “many Ethiopians”, have you ever met any Ethiopian who is not passionate about GERD? Ethiopians are unanimous in support of the dam they are building.
god bless Ethiopia congratulated Ethiopia
Sorry Aljazeera, there will be no war in the region, move on
Go Ethiopia🇪🇹✊🏾!!!You have my support from Congo🇨🇬 God bless🙏🏾✝️
Good job. GERD does not consume any water. Not a drop of water is taken out of the river. Our friends downstream should embrace GERD for alleviating the problem of extreme conditions of flood and water shortage. You should have participated in the building of the dam
egypt should stop harassing ethiopia.
May our almight GOD bless Ethiopia. When it comes national interests they drop their inner conficts and become true Ethiopians. Love from Tanzania !!!
Why does aljazeera focus on the controversy
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The Arabs are angry !
Go Ethiopia. God bless Ethiopia.
it’s May dam
Our fathers paid the price for us to use the natural resources of Ethiopia.
It is easy you can share the oil to us we give the water
1 down 99 dams to go. 😉
Bravo 👏🏾
Good job Ethiopia!!!
🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹First the water dont belong only to sudan and egypt. Plus is he even listening to him self? we just took
35 % giving the rest 65 (remember its just for a month) so why are egypt and sudan are complaining ? This is nonsense . 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 ITS MY DAM ! 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
Journalist Catherine is a lovely girl. She stands for truth with Ethiopia, Black Diamond 💎
Shout out to my Ethiopian brothers and sister, forget all other nations do what’s best for the Ethiopian state.
ተቃጠላችሁ ነጮቹ
it’s my dam
thank you china for dam money
lol this dam is financed by our own money no loans no foriegn fund those are only allowed to be given to corrupt gov officials.
African solution for African problems. why is Egypt refusing AU mediation?
Alhamdulilah Viva Ethiopia am so happy
am so surprise when ur neigbor come to ur house & take ur food like they owned …. hope u listen brother sudan & brother egypt u knew what’s true so be fair to have mental peace of mind as always politics are dirty games
This is kushite DAM. This my country i am so priod of Abiy Ahmed Somali Ethiopien.
This dam success is not only Ethiopian success it is a BLACK African success… it is God given natural resource to Ethiopia, if this water was coming from Egypt, they would not give us a cup of water… we can share the water Ethiopia never said we don’t want to share the water, she ask let me have my share….
I love you my country 🟢🟡🔴
Who said it’s controversial? It’s Ethiopian and Ethiopia 🇪🇹 water in Ethiopia 🇪🇹
We built it on our resources
It is my dam😍😍😍🇪🇹🇪🇹💪💪
It took the “media” so long to talk about such a milestone to just report it…..but they are swift to talk about one family incident in war village…..and among all the words you chose to make it ‘hear say’…”ethiopia says…” really! ..come on u are streaming the video…Ethiopia.🇪🇹 will rise with Africa.and we will wake that enslaved (blind folded) Egyptian brothers from this slavery mind set.
The British European Rulers and british european elites supports all Rebels who are fighting Against the ligistiment Government of day in Africa. They give Rebels industrial training and finance them to figth against ligistment government of day . For examples, Syria,Libya, Cuba, China ,Ethiopia,Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa.etc
African citizens Must Campaign Against all Civil Wars that is happening within Africa. The Citizens of Africa Must call for Peace and Prosperity at all times.
It’s My Dam!!💚💛❤️
Good Job! Make Africa proud!
Genesis 2:13
“And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.” Glory to God who made Ethiopia the source of Blue Nile. God is great all the time!
From Egypt God bless You.but Your governement Very Bad and i have concern about thinking and seeking to be no peace between us
Catherine is a true journalist. She reports as she saw and as it happens. She is not programmed to filter.
Amazing 🥰
This is our weapon! which means weapon’s of eradication poverty, Alhamdulila🙏🇪🇹💪
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Wake up Uganda we need next milestone another bridge
Al Jazeera layer always tolk sheet about Ethiopia we know you
Yet they can’t take Tigray fully… u guys scarred ur country, Tigray will always have the concept of becoming a country
Cant Stop wont stop. Keep going Ethiopia! 🇨🇦
“Says” your cruel intake upon Ethiopia lol why white voices when in translation..the backdrop of AA is looking marvellous..
ከእንግዲህ ወዲህ ፀሎታችን ፈጣሪ ለኢትዮጵያ “ጠላቶቿን ያጥፋ” የሚል ሳይሆን “ጠላቶቿን ያቆያቸዉና ከፍ ስትል ይዯት” ነው።
Proud to be Ethiopian 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
I don’t know why Sudanese officials are trying to make an issue out of a none issue. Is it just to show loyalty to Egypt and the Arabs? Big shame!
Wow the guest is not ashamed of opening his mouth to lie.
What he mentioned was categorically false.
The dam is filled which 74 b cubic in seven years.per year they recieve at average of 49+ b cubic every year for seven years 343+ b cubic.Therefore the GERD hold 74/343*100=21%.remember this is one time but they took water and silt for millennia.They live with our ancestors blood flesh and bone if they know it.
A country that produces 86% takes 21% while Eygipt and sudan contributes 0% but take 79%.
Eygipt and Sudan since they greedy and selfish,thier eyes become red when Ethiopia is rising.because of thier natural behaviour, they do not see what they have IN ASWAN,WHY THE LET THE WATER TO THE DERSERT WASTEFULLY WHY THEY SELL THE WATER AND SILT TO ARABS? Etc..we were wat thing you for years and you demand what a normal health person can not do.
Before you look in somebody’s bed room check yourself….this is really shame
There is no worldly or spiritual law that give this amount to the greedy and selfish Eygipt and Sudan.
No more free lunch…we take 86% and they can have the remaining…those days are over. If they do want to leave and share fairly in peace we will show the who we are.
Or they can import water from middle east…lol
I have some questions For Ethiopian, how much is the volume now stored in the dam, and when will electricity be generated? Are there other more and better ways to generate electricity? Why was the dam built so huge on the edge of your country? Why was no legal agreement concluded, not principles? How is your pursuit of peace?
Sudan is embarrassing itself. Swaying from supporting Ethiopia now in the groins of Egypt. What a spineless move.
Ethiopia contribute 87% of the Nile. Egypt and Sudan 0%. Ethiopia produce 77 billion cubic water every year.
1st year 4 billion cubic only
2nd year 13 billion cubic only.
You see the unjust colonial mentality Egypt had.
The dam is controversial not because it is the first of it kind, not because also the river is the sole source of fresh water to Egypt. It is simply Arabin disdain to Africans‘ will of development. It is an extension of colonial mindset.
Egyptians were overconfident about their diplomatic power a few years ago. Now they feel powerless.
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we all Ethiopians are reborn…
Thank God we did it
aljezera…???
now it is a time for egypt and sudan to bark about the 3rd year filling.
i really want to see egypt reaction when ethiopia start to use nile for irrigation.
Actually Ethiopia should fill it at once….
RIP aljazera we are Ethiopian 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹💪💪💪
The difference between Catherine and the Sudanese woman who report for CNN is the Sudanese is biased and for little bribe mo ey she puts journalism in question . She reported all fake news from Tigray and undermine the culture of Ethiopia and ERITREA .
Im so proud of Ethiopia for not cowering to Egypt and it’s non African foreign supporters
Ethiopia ❤️❤️❤️💪🏾👍 It’s my dam
ya w Ethiopian do works without affecting others
Well done Ethiopia 🇪🇹👏👍
Same thing Ghana 🇬🇭 did in other to create the largest man made lake and biggest Hydro Electric Dam in west Africa 🌍.
Anyone with healthier mind will support the construction of GERD dam, the dam is to provide electricity for more than 65million Ethiopians. It is issue of human survival as human being.
The journalist is now better, at list she is talking what she saw in Ethiopia. But the rest…👎
እንኳን ደስ አለን ኢትዮጵያውያን ፣ የደስታ ጊዚያችን ተቃርቧል። እግዚአብሔር በቀረው ይርዳን❤
all african brothers and sister this is our dam 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
CONGRATULATIONS ETHIOPIAN 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹💪💪💪WILL DONE
Eid Mubarak
Who cares what Egypt and its Arab allies think????
Ethiopia has done it. Al Jazeera, Sudan, and Egypt, all your predictions of doomsday, none of it come true. Abay (Nile) river still quietly flowing to you two ungrateful countries.
Sudan benefits a lot from GERD!
The down and upper stream countries must collaborate and work together to better their people. The economy benefits will be gained through this project will spill over to Sudan, Egypt and other neighbouring countries. Africa must start trading each other more.
3000 years old Egyptian Magic is falling🥾
Look at it now a days ( everything has to be done with a video these days )
What a lot of people fell to understand about Ethiopians is that we are a very prideful people and we hold our sovereignty to the death. Just ask Italy. I know we might not look as united as many western media had you believe but I’m telling you when it comes to foreign interferences and trait to our freedom we have unity.
Western countries and USA is taking every resources, nobody says anything. Now, they are fighting over what we have in our country. If we can’t use what is in our country, I don’t know what the point of having a country?. I just can’t believe, Sudan and Egypt complain about this. This is like, asking someone, take your clothes off and give to me, because I am color then you. We Ethiopians are United. Whatever it comes, we are ready.
I like this journalist girl the truest of all raise her wage ok
Not only Ethiopians but, it’s also all Black African Dam!!!
Congratulations dear Ethiopians,
practicing to solve African problem by Africans is one part of independent and free from western modern colonization.
We are not stakeholders. We are the owners. We have to decide whether this is enough for Egypt and Sudan.
Catherine does not deserve to work for this Micky mouse operation called Al Jazeera.
Africa needs 1 African media which will be a go to media for us Africans. We don’t have to rely on agenda driven media outside of Africa. Her reports on my beloved Ethiopia has been balanced unlike the rest.
這是埃賽俄比亞未來
this is Ethiopia in the future
We cant wait to see the result 🙌 electricity power to all the region of eth
Support Ethiopia from Israel 🇮🇱 🇪🇹
the biding legal document’s should be on Ethiopian terms Its their dam water land and country it’s their rules.
ethiopia gerd is for africa
Over 80% of the Nile water comes from Ethiopia and over 80% internal conflicts in Ethiopia comes from Egypt.
Kenya 🇰🇪 approves and supports this 👍🏾👍🏾