Ethiopia said he completed the construction of the disputed dam on the blue Nile

On Friday. Meanwhile, the Ethiopian government said she completed the construction of the contested dam on the blue Nile, whose works began in 2011: it is the most important infrastructure project carried out in recent years in Ethiopia, and in the last fourteen years it has been the cause of quarrels and tensions with Egypt and Sudan, which are located downstream compared to the dam and depend a lot on the water of the Nile.

The dam has a great political importance for Ethiopia. For example, where the generated energy could provide electricity to millions of houses and guarantee several billion euros from the sale of electricity to neighboring countries. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that Egypt. Sudan should not consider it a threat, and invited the two countries to the official inauguration of next September.

The dam is called Grand Ethhiopian Renaissance ethiopia said he completed construction Dam. “Great Dam of the Ethiopian Renaissance”, and has cost the equivalent of almost 4 billion euros: it is 1.8 kilometers long and is 145 meters high. It is located about 30 kilometers from the border between Ethiopia. Sudan: the blue Nile, on which it was built, joins the white Nile in Khartum, the capital of Sudan, forming the Nile, which then flows into the Mediterranean Sea between the Egyptian cities of Alexandria of Egypt and Porto Said.