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Ethiopia to continue Nile mega-dam filling amid spat with Egypt, Sudan

AFP, 07 Apr 2021
Ethiopia's Water Minister Seleshi Bekele says his country will continue to fill a mega-dam on the Nile River that has caused a dispute with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin ever since Ethiopia broke ground on it in 2011. SOUNDBITE

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Netherlands rocked by foreign adoptions scandal | Focus on Europe

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Police taken hostage by Pakistani Islamists after days of anti-France protests

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China's vaccine 'significantly effective': multinational studies

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George Eustice: David Cameron has 'not broken any of the rules' in Greensill scandal

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