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Category: Africa

Posted inAfrica

China at the heart of rising Nile River conflict

by Jonathan Gorvett January 19, 2021January 23, 2021

The Chinese-financed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), despite a recent breakdown in talks on Africa’s largest development project, risks powering up a range of downstream tensions and rivalries. These run from rising rivalry between Egypt and Ethiopia to a festering border war between Ethiopia and neighboring Sudan. At stake, too, is the future of almost […]

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by Nadeem Xu September 24, 2020September 24, 2020
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by Dave Makichuk April 15, 2020April 15, 2020

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