What's behind the Egypt-Ethiopia Nile dispute? | Start Here
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- Ethiopia has been building a new hydroelectric dam that’s promising to revive its economy and bring electricity to millions of people in mostly rural areas.
But the Grand Renaissance Dam has its critics. Mainly Egypt, which says its water supply is in danger, and its people depend on that flow for consumption and farming.
In the past, the two countries have made threats about military action and so far, talks to reach some kind of deal over how to share the Nile’s waters have not gone far.
So why exactly can’t the two sides come to an agreement?
Start Here explains one of the most important disputes in Africa right now.
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We all south Africans support Ethiopia 100%....
Thankyou south Africa to support Ethiopian.
Tank you south african for your suport
Thank you
Thank you !!
Thank you for what? For war? Why don't we both live?
We support Ethiopia from Serbia 🇷🇸
We're are growing up with the fitting ethopan so ejpt is fast time to togink about fitting
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Summer son Summer heat we are brothers in Christ. We also never forget your help during HIM Haile Slassie time for your military support to modernise our army.
@@marietedla9997you are right!:and I promise I'll read this history(military support).
Lol
An old Iraqi saying: if two fish fight in the Tigris, the British are behind it.
Ethiopia was never been clonizised so tht make no sense
@lewangoalski For some reason, I heard it was a Native American saying.
@@ahmedabunasser5912 😂
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@@dahabizizy they did Eritrea Italians
From Colombia, we support Ethiopia. They have suffered too much.
Thank you my brother
Thank you
Thank you
Love from Ethiopia
I do not get it, this river have 2 Niles, white and blue and Ethiopia will only slow down Blue one.
This is not so bad.
We support Ethiopia, here from south Korea!
kimichi bimpap thanks ❤️❤️
thanks our bro
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Thank you so much and we love K POP AND K DRAMA
Nigeria and South Africa support our Ethiopian family. It's your water 💪🏿
fill that dam up..support from kenya...Mkujie madeni ya china kaa mnataka
All Islamic countries support Egypt
@@hungwaingai268 I think you mean Arab.
@@hungwaingai268 f u
Egyptians are our African brothers... Ethiopia can fill the dam slowly, like over 30yrs. We need to consider each others' needs.
Support for Ethiopia from Ghana 🇬🇭.
Build your dam, the water is in your country.
Thank you... I Born on Thursday. My Ganean Name is " Yaw" 💙🙏
thank you brother
10 q all African brothers please support owen work shere right information to others
@FlashRedux Egypt is surrounded by ocean build desalination plants and call it a day if this was any other major power they would’ve just did it and not think about the anybody else
But it will also reduce water level in egypt so that's not actually true
I'm from South Africa 🇿🇦 and I fully support Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Thank you! for you support
Exactly I support Ethiopian to 🇪🇹🙏
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Iam from eygpt we are going to bomb it sorry
@@adelmohamed5632 You wish!!!
Built that Dam! Ethiopia has the right to control their water and land . God bless support from Eritrean brother
Thanks haile for the very kind support for our country!
Its not just their water that’s the problem. If three people live in a house, one of the them can’t completely remodel the kitchen because they want it. It has to be agreed upon by all three house members.
@@coleball6001 Worst analogy ever, lol... you still live at home, don't you?
@@coleball6001 except they dont live in the same house...
@@coleball6001 wrong example, Egypt doesn't contribute and doesn't contribute to preserve either. Egypt is just free rider.
about 85% of the water that flows into the Nile comes from the Ethiopian highlands
saint rowley funny how Al Jazeera missed that key fact
@Marcus Summers I think they are hitting back at Egypt for not helping with the Arab league issue!!!
@Marcus Summers so you think because Egypt is an arab country it's not an African country?!
Don't get me wrong I am not against building the dam, quite the contrary, it's just that I believe that this issue can be resolved by compromise and cooperation from all parties. *For the greater good*
@Marcus Summers I've lived there half of my life and I agree with you, the majority of the population think they're not part of Africa, and look at it as if it's a downgrade or that it's insignificant to be part of. Unfortunately the African continent is cursed by GREEDY, TYRANT, CORRUPT politicians and a population that is too hungry to think or fight for a better future for the generations to come, hence accept whatever crumbs, false promises and lies given to them by their leaders to be re-elected. That is a sad fact, but I do believe a change is going to come one day. Bless up brother! 🙏🏽
Marcus Summers Ethiopia supports Israel, Egypt Palestine, Qatar Owns AL jazeera and Qatar supports Palestine.
Tanzania support Ethiopia. Humble and brave men do too!
Thanks bro
Thank you my brother
We all support EGYPT.
@@oromediakoo1717 We all support EGYPT
@@ibrahimibrahim.1276 Nigerians support Ethiopia
When I read a comments , now I know we have brothers all over Africa,..love u all 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
We support you brother but civilians we don't have power some of our presidents are traitors like kagame of Rwanda
Build that dam Ethiopia. You have the blessings of West Africa :). We have to support our african brothers.
+support from easter africa we show the Egyptian that they are on the wrong contenet
Lamin J 🙏🏻 thanks
@@shamira13 another ethnocentric fool
Egypt is also african
And Make Egypt Pay For It..
All African must support Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Egypt considers itself among Middle East Countries. Let Ethiopia consruct the dam..how can your people be hungry and you have a natural resource flowing in your land but you can't use it because someone else far north only wants his people to enjoy the natural resource
hehe you are funny, because Egypt is not in Africa or?
Somali people have close tie with Ethiopia and wont hesitate to defend their brothers in arms not to mention Somalia could do with cheap electricity that's lacking atm.
@@evanmanni2723 right we were all colonized
@@evanmanni2723 these are mostly Americans who comment this.
We Moroccans and I have friends in Algeria, all support our Ethiopian brothers. It's your right
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ليش ماتعملو الهرج دا كلو لما إسرائيل تاخد غزكم وإنتو تشوفو؟ ولا الاستقواء على إثيوبيا فقط. تحية من الجزائر. إثيوبيا لها جميع الحق في بناء السد على ارضها.
Thank you
@@Yocef80 حفيد الفرنسيين هنستني منه ايه غير قله الاصل
@@stevasmr6024 غزكم تاخدو إسرائيل غصب عنكو وبالنهار وانتو تشوفو وماحدش نسمع صوتو منكم. روح عبي قنينة الغاز قبل ما تخلص. ما إسرائيل غزكم يوصل لكل مواطن إسرائيلي حتى منزلو.
Horn of Africa will become powerfull! GOD bless Africa!
It's natural resources of Ethiopia, so why Egypt worried about that?! I support Ethiopia to build they're dam 😎
Muhammad Nasir It’s belong to the three countries Ethiopia and Sudan and Egypt .
It belog to ethiopia
@@mmooaabb It only belong to Ethiopia.
Thanks bro for telling the true
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I support Ethiopia from south Sudan . We gonna build dam soon
Done ✅
We support South Sudan as well. We are looking forward to seeing a prosperous South Sudan brother!
We thank you African brother!
I was i South Sudan juba really thay good for Ethiopian i see
William Othow you can build a dam man we Ethiopians also support you guys long live South Sudan 🇸🇸
Cry me a river,egipt
LONG LIVE ETHIPOPIA,with love from Serbia
hahahaha. Thanks for your support, anyways
You say that because you think Ethiopians are all orthodox like you you idiot ? The leader of Ethiopia farther( Abiy Ahmed ) is a Muslim as are millions of others who are Ethiopian Muslim too. Ethiopia is not all orthodox Christian like Serbia. There are many Ethiopian Jews also.
What are you the ambassador of Serbia for Ethiopia? Are you ? Who are you what support are you giving? Lol , "we support you " lol.
OK Mr . Ambassador of Serbia , thank you for your support . Lol .
We love you too.
Thanks to your support we Ethiopians love serbians and the GOAT Novak Djokovic we wish him a speedy recovery 🙏💒🙏
@@greywolf4704 what a stupid comment nothing to do with religion here it is all about fairness equality
Good job Ethiopia love from Turkiye to Africans.
We love you too.
teşekkür ederim for your support!
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Thanks
Thanks support by telling what it's meant for Ethiopia this dam Every mother carry large and heavy hoods for light it can changes Ethiopian mother life if they get electricity by this dam
We support Ethiopia from Eritrea. Ajoki Ethiopia the sun 🌞 is coming soon. No more darkness. long live Ethiopia!!!
somali i support Ethiopia too how are black people treated in arab countries we know they are abused even killed some times i support my black people
Lier we eritreans dont support anyone
@@Mr-my8kx go back to the bush, little weasel
@@daniel_habteghebremeskel1962 no all eritrean support ethopian dam !
@@malabraaga3087 Don't speak for us. We dislike both Egypt and Ethiopia. It will be better for everyone if they both vanished.
Ethiopia didn't say "I'll control the nile from now on" Ethiopia only said "let me use the water to generate first before It arrive to Egypt"
Thank you. Well observed. Ethiopia can't generate power without the water flowing.
Yes! Great point but Egypt is acting as if they said the opposite
@@michaelm3418 Did you actually watch the video??
Watch this clear 3:03
tibebu Mengistu Don’t worry about them. I even have a plan to do Agriculture when the dam is finished. I can’t wait till finished
Indeed, did you watch the video?
We as South Africa fully support our Ethiopian allies!
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Ethiopia 🇪🇹 built that giant beautiful tall dam we in Sudan 🇸🇩 support you💯
Didn't Sudan say they support egypt or something
@@dashtron7966 no, they have always been with Ethiopia. And Ethiopians are grateful to Sudanese for being with us during this perilous time.
Sudanese here. Sudan should look out for its own interests. we don’t support ethiopia for not caring about its neighbours.
@@NahumGFajji Well yes but Sudan Is still a part of the Arab league which supports egypt
Oh and don't act like you're speaking for the entire country of 40 million and just say that every single person in Sudan supports Ethiopia
Dash tron i say whatever I want to say that part of freedom of speech in case of you don’t know and I didn’t say that I’m speaking on behalf of Sudanese people I’m from Sudan and we know our history and this Government is not elected by the people so they don’t represent the views of it’s people and the majority of people agree with Ethiopia and they have the right to do what ever they want in their country so get right! Whether you want it or not.
Time for Ethiopia to claim its right.
What right? God made the Nile to give life for all
richard kuda including Ethiopia u have been using it since .... so try to be fair
@@user-bh9sc2jx1j to use it, also there is life in Ethiopia if you aware of that , you shouldn't ask that question. Don't be silly.
احمد منصور then you have to pay for it. You used our water for free all these time.
@@user-bh9sc2jx1j I know you don;t consider us humans but we don't care god made it for us
we will seaport you ETHIOPIA from China
we appreciate ur support from china yoni
So heart warming to see these much people support 🇪🇹Ethiopia ....thank you on behalf od my country.....
Support from your neighbor 🇸🇴
Egypt just doesn’t want Ethiopia becoming more powerful. Ethiopia will rise and become the greatest empire in Africa. God bless Ethiopia 🇪🇹
If there’s a drought people will be desperate. And desperation makes people so stupid things. Lets leave national pride out of this and be reasonable. Because being unreasonable will at best lead to an entire generation or more dying for a resource we could have easily shared.
PRO_ZOMBIE117 I don’t see your point. The dam is for the people not to make Ethiopia the greatest Empire
coletrain411 exactly I agree with you.
No egypt need 55 billions of water her water
We don't care about Ethopia being powerful or not, we want water?
You did not mention that 85% of nile river flows from Ethiopia!
That’s not true I researched it
Please provide the proof.
Its 65%
@@hayamelshamy7746 oh really😩
@@saeedamir7250 if that why do u eorry that much😐
All of our African brothers and sisters who express your support for Ethiopia THANK YOU
not me
Even the Egyptians, support Ethiopian plans to develop it's resources.
The conflict is about how to achieve it without causing damage to their brothers in the north..
East exactly. the egyptian people are on board with the whole project they just want to prolong it so that their people get the ressources needed too
I support Ethiopia. My government (Kenya) in the security council will either abdicate its responsibility (abstain from voting) or vote in favour of Egypt.
haha you do know that Egypt is part of Africa
We West Africans support our people of Ethiopia.
we also support you.
Don't kid yourself, they don't see you as equals, let alone the same
Thanks brother we need it
@@mohamedyusuf5141 Neither have you Arabs , when you invaded our African land.
ur a legend
What makes egypt thinks it can control a river and what they do on another country?? Africa wake up, africa rise ✋✋
Thanks to wake up us Ethiopia will finished the dam
because they have settled in this river for longer than you have, thus giving them rights to use it
Because of a colonial treaty..
Egypt has already dried every credit opportunity Ethiopia may get from any bank in the world. Ethiopians are determined to built it anyway. Imagined draught is a concern for Egypt and it's allies, for Ethiopia draught is current reality.
Amen
Very much true
You see the dam is not built for water, but it is built for electricity. Egypt needs the water from the Nile and Ethiopia needs it for electricity. There are so many ways to generate electricity.
Angie Farouq it's not only for electricity it used for irrigation from the artificial lake created
Turkey will probably support construction in exchange for access to arable agricultural land.
African need to work together so everyone will benefit. This dam can be good for everyone.
@Slim Pickens can i use it to power my kettle
100% you right
It took me so long to find an intelligent comment. Thanks.
Power of Ethiopia support 🇪🇷
Fake Eritrean
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Garbage you are not eritrean
One love Our brothers
Build that dam love Ethiopia from Eritrea💝
Thank you marrr❤🖤
i love Ethiopia! i hope i'll come to Ethiopia in a few years and enjoy it.
u welcome2 IWARMLY WELCOME U
thank you
@@workuendalfer5463 thank you! can you teach me amharic?
@@elsaasras2611 thanks! i want to learn amharic
Go to Britain they will teach you !!!
“No force could stop Ethiopia from building a dam” Abiy Ahmed
Can you please tell me a tangible work he did regarding NiLe? He went to negotiate with Americans and reduced the megawatts.
He’s just a shame to the country
@@mariyaa7053 he stood firm to ward finishing the dam. that is more than enough. and we love him.
@@mariyaa7053 dir diru eko ahun algemerem ahun ethiopio be hulu neger reform adrga sitenkesakes kef endatle endatbeletseg ye alem mengistat tenesubat leza nw enji esu gidbun asalfo alsetem asalfo ye setew yehe hodam TPLF nw
Abo satawku atawru haylun man nw yaskenesw?lmn American ende aderadari tekebele? Mejemeria likebel nbr enesu yalutn dr seleshi nw midea lay weto le abiyn yetekawemw. TPLF? Be abay guday ke manm belay TPLF yemesegenal
TPLF eyalema gbs endi yeleb lb altesematm nbr
We as kenya support you ethiopians....build the dam real quick....
@S E P How so?
Build the dam real quick and thereby deprive millions of people who depend on it for their livelihood?
Thank you love Kenyan
@S E P yeah he wasn’t educated he doesn’t even know that the dam can make him not even water the plants
Ethiopia could have built the dam on a different tributary. But no, they want to be a Geopolitical power and now a war will begin.
How do you control a river inside a sovereign state? Is Egypt serious?
Tell me about it they want to control Africa they only want Egypt to grow but not this time Ethiopia just wake up
Well if Egypt wants to go to war it will. Ethiopia can't stop Egypt from bombing the dam
@@ratemate458 Egypt would just loose to Ethiopia
@@mantiyo2739 How? Egypt is more powerful than Ethiopia and Egypt has the West's support on the matter because of Egypt's political leverage
@@ratemate458 even if you guys are the strongest country you aren't brave enough to even do anything about it
Great Ethiopia from Gambia
We love u our black people.
I have friends from Gambia i love Gambian from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
To the reporter or narrator: why didn't mention that Ethiopia contributes 85-86% of the Nile water? Then, convince me or others why Ethiopia should not take control of the GERD-its resource!!
Solomon hi Solomon! I’m the narrator. No one is trying to convince anyone. In fact we talk about the fact that the Blue Nile originates in Lake Tana, the fact that Egypt already has its own dam, and the fact that the dam will benefit millions of Ethiopians
@@@sandra.gathmann : Thanks for your clarification. For 115 plus millions of Ethiopians the GRED project is not only a national pride, but also the key factor to increase the accessibility of electricity across the country. More than 65% Ethiopians do not have access to electricity. Millions of people suffer from climate change due to agriculture that depends on rain water. In deed, millions of Ethiopians face food shortages every year and depend on others to feed its citizens. I hope the GERD will play a major in solving some of these chronic issues.
@@sandra.gathmann Not only the Blue Nile but many other rivers originate from Ethiopia and flow in to the Nile like Baro and Tekezie to name a few. It is one thing to mention that the blue Nile originate in Ethiopia but the whole angle in this piece is really siding with Egypt like many media outlets do most of the time. Egypt is top agricultural producer based on the Nile and they also have oil and natural gas. Likewise water is our big resource and We have the right to use our own resources to develop our country without harming downstream countries. No amount of false information and bullying will stop GERD becoming a reality.
Isn’t the source of the Nile in East Africa? 🤷🏾♂️
Blue nile Ethiopia
The blue Nile yes white Nile not
@@elkolfew The white Nile originates from Lake Victoria which is in East Africa as well.
Blue nile from Ethiopia
did Egypt support Ethiopia when Ethiopia were in a famine? the answer is NO
@Aseffa B hmmmmmmmmmmm my senses are beggining to really tweak here fr fr
And did they support us when we were at war with 🇮🇱
egypt didnt cause your famine lmao, not the same
Just to state some of the basics you intentionally left out
1. Ethiopia is the major contributor to the Nile River.
2. Ethiopia is the second populous country in Africa but most of the population has no access to electric energy.
3. Ethiopia is endowed with different resources one of which is the blue Nile and it has the right to utilize its resources for both domestic and export purposes.
4. Before the Ethiopian Prime minister remark about protecting Ethiopian right to build a dam, by going to war if needed, the Egyptians were making such kinds of comments. Just so you know Ethiopians regardless of our differences in domestic politics we are very protective of our Sovereignty. We will be on guard for any kind of offenses by Egypt or any other actor.
Sofia Senbit am she mentioned all that
instead of fcking up so much ecology and risking a war with the neighbor why didn't ethiopians simply build a nuclear power plant?
Egyptians will never start a war because if they do all generations of Ethiopia will consider Egypt as an enemy regardless of who won the war. So every generation will try to block the river, which will definitely affect Egypt. I see Ethiopians do not want to hurt their Egyptian brothers and sisters because these two countries are inseparable due to the Nile. I advise the Egyptians to keep this love. Otherwise, they will lose everything.
Definately factual,i already stand for my blessed ethipia till i breath my last breath,i born a warrior and i dont need special training to beat the nubians coz they already knew me how i am deadly strong!
@Stain nuclear energy is man made,bur its difficult to manage the disaster if its throuwn by GOD,i hope ur ancestors told u the reality how GOD loves ethiopia,thats why we dont have doubts to fight with any enemy in this planet (if relevant) ,with no hesitation!
We all African brothers and sisters support Ethiopia to build the Dam as quickly as possible,
by history Ethiopia didn't violate the sovereignty of any other country so far.
We will never do that! We love & respect our neighbors but require z same in response.
@@Breen.Machine Then guess what will be the consequence, Egypt will be a desert just diverting the water flow is what we have to do no missile, no bomb ...anyways they will be destroyed before Ethiopia.
@@Breen.Machine They are not brave enough to do so.
@@yidnekachewdamte7509 if they try to destroy the dam, what will you do then?
@@Breen.Machine
The blue Nile belong to Ethiopia 100% not to Egypt or anybody else
86% of water comes from Ethiopia Highlands. Egypt is concerned about what if? The building of the Aswan river wasn't negotiation with Ethiopia or Sudan.
Asuan dam was upstream. It did not effect water flows in Ethiopia. Its located inside Egypt. You are not very educated.
@@haris000000 but asuan gets its water from nile and 85% of nile is from ethiopia.egypt is highly dependent on nile from thousands years ago and still they are dependent on nile which comes from ethiopia. so ethiopia can make effect on water flows in egypt thats why egypt was suppose to negotiate with ethiopia
haris000000 @ you are highly educated but you misspelled Aswan. Idiot!
The Aswan high dam was built to not affect other countries. And it didn’t. But Ethiopia is building a dam that isn’t like that
@@haris000000 you're the one who is selfish and stupid!
We finish the dam
Because we are ethiopian
Go for it man. You have a right to build a dam. If they threaten you then cut the whole water and give nothing till they come to their senses and respect ethiophia!
you finished your life 😂
@@olorinvalar8950 lol they can destroy it easily
@@mahmoodtube8053 then sudan and egypt would be flooded with tons of water. Dam is already keeping some water. Plus if they destroyed egypt would no longer be safe. 120 million etiophaian people would be furious.
@@olorinvalar8950 lol dam didnt full with water till now as problem is here as egypt doesnt wanna ethiopia to fill it
We African's anytime support Ethiopian's . Hurry up Ethiopian's make your dam quick it's your natural resource.
Its also Egypt’s river as well.
@@coleball6001 Not for long
@@coleball6001 the only part of the river that Egypt owns is in Egypt...
@@coleball6001 in every aspect nine can't be belong to Egypt but as human being we better share it
@@coleball6001 how so...could you tell me the true source of the Nile?
Ethiopia!!❤️
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I love Ethiopia, Go ahead Ethiopia and build the dam. I love you though I am not Ethiopian.
Omggg we do too
Thanks for your support
Turks supports Ethiopia ! Stay Strong !
thank you
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Thank you
Ethiopia is rising great job
Don't count your lucky stars girl, anything could happen in the future and Ethiopia might need Egypt.
@@mohabatkhanmalak1161 lol Ethiopia has the Nile she doesn't need anyone
@@Jstar697 Oh yeah Queen of Sheba, you have grown wings. If Ethiopia will be naughty, Egypt will get Saudi Arabia not to buy wheat and grains from Ethiopia.
Soon everybody can enjoy the Ethiopian cuisine: empty plates
@@sjakierulez soon the caliphate's cross dressers will be starving
I am form 🇸🇴 and we support our Ethiopian brothers to build the dam. We can all benefit from it. Ethiopia could export electricity to its all neighbors and that can be a good thing for all Africa.
What a traitor to ummah
Yes sir we can benefit from the dam to all Africa we should support Ethiopia Egypt want to rise alone they don't want anyone to develop that way support Ethiopia please 86% of the water comes from Ethiopia
@@kidubg3896 Support Egypt 🇪🇬 I'm from Somalia, Ethiopia is Expandist County.
Naga amus naclad kugu dhacdaye dad dhulkadi heysto baad ledahy walallhy uff qurun
I hope etiopya government does not become a puppet of UK and USA .
Egypt is forever puppet of uk, usa
They already are. Look up Thedros from the World Health Organization...
@@gebrailkal1647 Lol as if the us relations with Egypt are terrible.
We the Somalis are with our neighbours in Ethiopia, build the dam brothers we are with you 👊
No they r our enemy
Thank you yusuf✅
Ethiopia needs to secure its electricity and quality of life. They have every right to have the renaissance dam.
Mkoni Dama Right it’s like asking for their oil would they share their oil? Nope therefore, Ethiopia has an right to build the dam
@@Eyerusalem_ u don't need oil to survive but you need water to survive
@@heywet the dam will help ALL of Ethopia and east Africa
@@youssefabadir3210 Sir you have existed and flourished by the water for ever ....Ethiopia needs to survive the famine that happens every year by using the electricity power to buy food!
true, but the dam could cause one of the biggest humanitarian crises in human history.
I’m ready to do any thing in power for my country ethiopia ✊🏾✊🏾
Abs Abs yeee we we shall fight with sweat and blood 🇪🇹🇪🇹🙏🏽
As Ethiopian women we are next to you like ADWA we gonna fight for our country with blood 🩸
@@lelo4275 Was Egypt in the war that ended in Adwa? It was colonial Italians vs Ethiopia over land control. If you side with Italians, you side with imperialism and colonization.
@@lelo4275 and we will sucerfice for maintaining of the Nile water 💦 get to Egypt 🇪🇬 by all ways you can imagine and we don't calling for the war but if it's occure we will be compelely ready . Even if we will replace the water by our blood .
@@Mohamed_Elsayed2 85% comes from Ethiopia you gonna fight for even if it's not yours let's be honest it's Ethiopian water Why you guys don't want Ethiopia to grow
Go Ethiopia, Make this dam and create history with stand with you. From the United States of America.
Egypt has been using this water for thousands of years it is time for Ethiopian to use it's own water
With the pandemic and all egypt is just asking to fill it slowlu
The Egyptians there are not the original people there they migrated there recently and drove the Blacks out.
@@MOCHI-ek6rc What is this nonsense? The Egyptians are the indigenous inhabitants of Egypt, the black ones always lived behind the Sahara
the Nile flows upwards and starts from Uganda, passes through Sudan and Ethiopia. Ancient Egyptians were like today's Sudanese and Ethiopians which are neighbouring countries.
Will you say the natives of North America are the same people there today?
@@MOCHI-ek6rc Anciet Egyptian DNA matches with modern on 80%. Nubians are also not entirely black and differ, together with habesha, from other blacks🤦🏽♀️
Good job Ethiopia
Like the Turks say we don’t tell Arabs how to use their oil and they don’t tell us how to use our water 😂
Do u know what happens when u cut the flow of water from Attaturk's dam on the Euphrates river ? A mountain of gold shall apprear in Iraq and WW3 will start over it
It's not "your" water, the Nile flows through Egypt too. And I really don't know why Ethiopians believe Egypt is a oil exporter country. our economy relies on agriculture and tourism, both of which was possible due to the Nile. If Ethiopia doesn't compromise in the talks, then war is going to make it happen.
@@MohammedR-fk2ju Then maybe Israel and USA are right that it is not your oil, because your oil flows to other nations!
Egypt does export billions in Oil, but not as much as saudis or iran.
War will not occur. Egypt has no ability to make a war. If this was 1960 or 1980 or even 2000 when Egypt was strong, I'd agree, now Egypt is so weak, that Ethiopia could turn off the water, Egyptians would riot and the government would collapse before Egypt can declare war. Massive refugee crisis as Egyptians flee. Ethiopia is so far away from Egypt, they cannot strike it from air. It has no water, so no naval strike can work, Sudan ally with Ethiopia because they want the water to be slow down and new government depends on Ethiopia to keep South Sudan from taking them over completely. Sudan biggest fear is Ethiopia and South Sudan tribes who share history/culture/religion and were one nation link into one and shut off the pipe completely. So they are trying to win over Ethiopia.
Turks are smart. This is why Turkey is developed with no oil and Syria and Iraq are backwards. Turks are just like Ethiopian, clever good people.
@SMM Productions Soon to be #1 in water exporting in the world, LOL.
Egypt has benefited from the Aswan Dam, so should Ethiopia and the surrounding countries.
aswan dam didnt hurt any country though
@@dom1abc1mbc II don't know what you mean by hurting.
@@MySpace662 starving them of water they need to live
@@dom1abc1mbc The Ethiopian's need electricity also to improve their economy,
both countries have to come to some understanding, to share the Nile water.
@@MySpace662 not on the expense of another country, thats literally an act of war.
I support Ethiopian From Somalia🇸🇴🇸🇴
@Henry Patterson one time Visit Ethiopian East African is one♥️
Your explanation suggests Nile belongs to egypt .we ethiopians said no it is ours we own it.
The entire length of the River?
@@coleball6001 entire,length of river in our territory is ours.
Daniel Dokash But, you act like a river is a gold deposit. In reality, its a complex water system where actions upstream affects those downstream.
@@coleball6001 Nile with in our territory which is Abay with it tributaries is ours and you got yours.
@@danieldokash3620 Imagine if Egypt or Sudan worked to build a dam that would be blocked through water!
As a result, the entire Ethiopian lands will be drowned
Of course, this is a stupid example, but to show that the Nile belongs to everyone
We all eritrean with ethiopan brothers
us REAL Eritreans support EGYPT 100%
Real Eritrean full with resentment? That Ethiopia military dont take any of your shoreline eventhough they could and they need.
Thanks brother u are us
@@lordfrieza8080 u mean -100%
@@lordfrieza8080 you are an absolute idiot for not using a logical and educated form of thinking due to past quarrels Ethiopia and Eritrea have had, grow up
From Morocco, all our love and support to our Ethiopian brothers
Thanks for supporting
Thanks Bro
Expected from a Moroccan 😁 your time will come but for now we have other things to attend to
Thank you
Yeah thanks now in Egypt we will go beg for water
GO ETHIOPIA! Build that dam!
Ethiopian dame
85% the water comes from ethiopia 🇪🇹 Egyptian people should be grateful that they used the water for free for so long ... most of the Ethiopian ppl live in poverty and dark they need the dam ...
Even Ethiopia got it free. Everyone's got something for free, it's the human that decided something by the value.
The Truth about Africa hurts so do ur comment
you sound as if you paid for that rainwater. it belongs to all of us
Rainwater be gift from the God of The Heavens
Imagine if Egypt or Sudan worked to build a dam that would be blocked through water!
As a result, the entire Ethiopian lands will be drowned
Of course, this is a stupid example, but to show that the Nile belongs to everyone
Ethiopia should be able to control its own rivers!
True.
Better to be at a source of a river than the tail end.
@@Crashed131963 yeah,factual!
Yes sir we should
It's not just Ethiopia's river, though.
stop acting like the river is completely in its borders
severe floods are upcoming. rising sea levels are upcoming. what are these people fighting for instead of working together . egypt should provide finance for the dam.
Unfortunately, Geopolitics comes in to play.
lol you are wrong. sea level will rise but wont efect nile waters.
I think the rising water level is seawater which is salty
And eygpt die wtf
The Nile river was there way before you were born. Even way before Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia were there. It was there since earth was created and it will flows to the end of the world. Egypt should destroy this disaster dam. It doesn't make any sense to build a valve over the the Nile to control the life of 150 million people in Egypt and Sudan.
The main problem in Ethiopia is the corruptions, solve your problems instead of hang your mistakes in Egypt.
Ethiopia should have build the Dam over 50 years ago, but because of internal war that was supported by western governments, Arab governments which include Egypt for political, geopolitical reasons nothing was done. Hopefully at this time where there in no internal war between brothers, Ethiopia might achieve the plan that was set 5 decades ago by king haile silase era. Ethiopia should take care of there business and do let other countries interfare.
There is still war between brothers, tho, in Tigray.
@@wesleylill6318 That’s far from the dam. Learn geography please.
Egypt is being GREEDY! They have dams along Nile, benefiting from power and irrigation but wont allow others to have the same? Ethiopia has the right to build dam on their land, on their river. If Egypt fears of not enough water, what is Aswan dam for? wasn't it to store water (for those dry days) or just for show?
we own Africa we do what ever we want 😂🇪🇬
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@@mohanedx4 too bad the future is grim for Egypt the whole Africa is behind ethiopia ...either you share the water or you lose it
The Egyptian dam does not affect any countries who benefit from the Nile.
@@user-tx4nw6yq5t who else is benefiting from Nile???
As the prime minister's said, unless force come from heven,no one will stop us from earth, just that simple.
Bro one single missile and you will kiss your dam goodbye
As Tanzanian I firmly support Ethiopian,the Arabs invaded African land thousands of Years Ago There are not Africans.....
Maybe Egyptian Government must learn how to make Lake & River as UAE planning for their future like Lake Zayed...
Or maybe Ethiopia must learn how to generate power through other means, instead of destroying another country's economy to generate electricity.
@ge ta we don't have oil, you dumb brick, our economy relies on agriculture and tourism, which will be destroyed by your stupid dam.
Mohammed # leave Ethiopia alone go research the new way to your country and get the best advice from other’s country
@TheCrazyKid1381 Your name checks out. Go read your nursery rhymes, maybe you will learn some history from them
@@sifrashbayssia170 If you are such a genius, tell us a way, enlighten me
We Ethiopian are stand together in this issue we believe in win win approach,other we will die our motherland Ethiopian
it's hard to choose you know the egyptians cannot drink water or eat without bile water but Ethiopia also live in dark what to do🤯
Kenya should now also consider building a dam upstream on it's rivers that enter lake victoria whose outlet is the nile in uganda.
Why Kenya wants to build a dam and where? You want to create trouble with Uganda or Egypt?
@@amberlight5830 The Nile is suppose to be shared by 11 countries!! Egypt / Sudan can no longer monopolise the water!!
@@redseayouth2897 the other eleven countries are not that needy for Nile river or solely depends oj it then upper Nile countries.
We support Ethiopia, love from India.
Teach those Egyptians a lesson.
Go Africa go Ethiopia good job
Both are in Africa. But I get you.
There is no need to take sides. Having grown in Egypt I understand Egypt’s worry. Of course Ethiopia has the right to improve its economy by regulating the Blue Nile. The solution lies in cooperation not belligerency,
A black spaniard from barcelona. Go ahead Ethiopia!!
Start Here is an amazing concise educational media source, often poignant and evocative and Sandra does the perfect presentation every time. Thanks to the whole team.
1k because of me.
"It's my Dam"
There is no such a thing as historic rights. For countries, almost everything that persues their interest is legal.
Someone is now Talking sense! Conflict resolution needed not arms...
that is ironic coming from a zionist.
A jo0 is saying that? LOL stop
محمد this is not a battle of religions it’s Babylon vs the cradle of mankind Islam wasn’t even created when this was prophesied neither was Christianity. Mark my words if ethiopia struggles god will intervene Egypt will bend on its knees.
i hope both countries resolve the issue without any cause of damage! I'm Ethiopian and i love all African countries including Egypt. aside from our issues never forget we are brothers and sisters! and we need to help and understand each other.
Finally somebody who gets it. It’s good to want to fight for your country’s benefit, but we also need to have a win-win attitude instead of wanting to have it all and creating enemies.
True, war has its consequences and its not a joke.
Thank you Al Jazeera you are the best news network out there! Very cut to the chase and informative yet not dry at all!
Excellent work greatly done!
“We do not tell the Arabs what to do with their oil as such we take no suggestions from them about what to do with our water. Let them drink their oil.” - President Ozil, the former president of Turkey
A flawed argument that lacks the basic fundamentals of comparative analysis.
Oil fields do not flow from one country to another 'naturally'; decisions made about oil fields in one country does not normally have a significant impact on a neighbouring country.
If every country decided to build dams on rivers unilaterally there will be no 'rivers'. Being an upstream country does not give you sole ownership; these rivers existed as they are for millions of years and pre-date any drawn territories called countries.
Turkey was opportunistic in its Dam building: Iraq and Syria both are too weak to defend their rights. Turkey destroyed the historic rivers of the Levant.
So what does this mean?
And egypt is not an arab country and its oil is not like saudia it's less than them
Persian Lion I am sorry that you feel so defensive. Most of the scenarios you described are unfeasible; the water flaws from south to north, diverting it will cause more problems to Sudan during the flood season than any benefit. Same with your creative suggestion of dumping oil into the Nile; it will probably br most devastating to Sudan, as Egypt will shutoff the high-dam and let all the contamination reside in lake nasser till it is treated.
It is worth noting that such act of aggression is non discriminatory and is considered a form of chemical attack, which Egypt can retaliate with a devastating similar or even more aggressive attack.
@@Marwan-tx5nb All untrue. Many oil fields flowed ontop of the ground and locals used them to patch boats and yes they did cross borders.
Oil fields create pollution that goes in air and crosses borders so we all pay the price.
USA did it to Mexico, many nations build dam, and have the right to do so. Upstream nation has full rights, it is called soverignty.
Ethiopia build this dam already! out of the 53 countries of the continent 49 are with you excluding the arabs ofcr Libya Tunisia Algeria n Morocco 👍
I'm not depressed yes we know that dear. Thank you 🙏🏽
Thank you
Thanks you brothers
This project will be a massive boost to east africa. All countries are looking to buy cheap, reliable and affordable power from ethiopia. Kenya has already built a transmission line connecting to the ethiopian grid. Tanzania will connect to Kenya same to Uganda. Rwanda will connect via Uganda or Tanzania.
The power will go all the way to zambia and mozambique.
Through this dam ,once again ethiopia is coming to the rescue of east africans not from colonizers this time but from poverty.
I am Moroccan and let me tell you that your analysis is irrelevant. It seems like you dont know why Moroccan king inaugurated by himself the largest agricultural fertilizer plant in Ethiopia during his last visit. Dont you know why ?? You dont even know this info apparently. Politics is more complicated than your naive layman assertions. We dont even verbally support building the dam. We invest in its agricultural projects. You dont know the Moors buddy.
This video started off with "the problem the dam..."
No, the dam is not the problem. The problem is water resources and management.
Unfortunately, Egypt has for decades taken a monopoly over Nile waters from colonial era. They took more than their share, engaged in wasteful projects, and exploded their population in desert area that was never meant to support those masses.
That's the problem. Fix that.
Yes!!!! 👏🏾
Egypt is in downstream.
So, how can they take more than their share?
They can only take what they get.
@@simonsiddique By putting colonial restrictions on Ethiopia's water usage.
@@A1Googler Was any water usage restrictions before?
This video emphasize that, it is a first time such deal between Ethiopia and Egypt.
Ethiopia receives between 700 to 900 billion cubic meters of rains every years, Egypt receives 55, Sudan receives 18 billion cubic meters of this amount the rest is not enough? The Ethiopian government try to hang their failure on the shoulder of Egypt. There are a lot of corruptions in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia has the right to do whatever on their land,
The real world is way more complicated, actually.
As always Al Jazeera releases an unfair and biased report in favor of Egypt. I just came for the comments.
Seems like they just pointed out what would happen if a dam is build. Anytime a dam is built anywhere in the world there are winners and losers.
"As always...in favor of egypt"
You clearly missed Aljazeeras news reports on the last 5 to 7 years
They are literally bashing Sisis regime on daily basis
No one stop us from building our ethiopian renaissance dam
Not even a chemical weapons attack against you. Imagine a thousand corona hitting your country.
@@brez6179 What are you going to do throw sandwiches at us . Oh and were just exhausting all diplomatic efforts so when we hit your country with
Hypersonic weapons
Chemical weapons
No one can intervene against us. You and your people are in for some dark days. Get ready for lots of viruses not one of you will remain standing when were done with your country.
Cutting off a nations water supply is like using a weapon of mass destruction and we have lots of those.
Not only are we going to destroy your dam but we will hit you with wmds.
We don't wish you harm we even send out best Dr to cure your people for free. Since you want to harm us expect us to target your ever populated country.
@@brez6179 Oh please stop talking about the past. Anyway be patient well soon see who is weak. Well soon find out who is weak. Good luck.
Absolutely No one!💪
@@ezananerae5319 I hope you have somewhere to hide. Because we have hypersonic weapons that no nation has a defense against.
I suppose your going to stop our mach 15 missile also right.
The last time Egypt warred against Ethiopia, the result was Ethiopia’s Victory. Hence, if Egypt thinks to do it again, they should know what they will get. Read about Mussolini, Egyptians can get good advice. You think you can go to war and expect to get healthy water coming to you? Someone must be joking.
@FlashRedux Sure you might be right. It might be bad for Ethiopia like you said but if it goes that far; then what is bad for Ethiopia is absolutely going to be devastating for Egypt. It might be the end of Egypt as you know it if Ethiopia is attacked. No matter how this plays out, the fact remains that 86% of your fresh water comes from Ethiopian land. Not the country to be messing with. If anything Ethiopia should be the highest ally of Egypt beyond any other country. But Egypt didn't consider Ethiopia to be anything of significance throughout the 20th and 21st century. Until now.
@FlashRedux Dont talk about war clean ur mind
FlashRedux yet the dam is filled and operating so what you gone do ? Nothing go smoke ur hooka your brainless man
Wedi Tesfai The Nile river or the Dam is a massive Nuclear by itself. There is no need to buy weapons to fight against Egypt 🇪🇬
I want you to search who is the most powerful country in Africa
Engineer did not take his life.
His been murdered
As much as Ethiopia does not have Vito power on Swiss canals, Egypt doesn’t have a Vito power on river Nile.
I don't understand why Aljezera so worried about the Ethiopian dam?
@b king News media isn't a charity club or educational institution set up to serve the public. It is a sole propaganda machine established to serve the geopolitical interests of its given country. Aljazeera had played a big role in fueling the Arab spring in 2011. why? cuz they cared about the blossoming of democracy in the Arab world? No! It is a multi-billion geopolitical weapon set to amplify Qatari state propaganda to the world, just like the BBC, CNN, TRT WORLD, RT World, CGTN and so on. Tell me if the Qatari government isn't an absolute monarch governing the nation with sharia law. What makes you think Aljazeera cares about justice, democracy, and rule of law? Are you out of your mind????
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Egypt has paid to make it Controversial
The way this lady is explaining everything is worth watching over and over.
A mother can aspire to be a farmer, provide for her family and her community. Running a farm with adequate irrigation and other infrastructure will make this possible.
Supporting these projects, including the building and commissioning of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), is critical and a right for Ethiopians.🇪🇹
Go ahead Ethiopia 🇪🇹. Says Me
Hello Isaias hahaha
All of east africa is waiting for this dam. Already high voltage transmission lines have been built connecting Kenya to ethiopia power lines. Tanzania will also connect to the Kenyan line, same to Uganda. Rwanda will connect via Uganda or Tanzania. Mozambique will connect via Tanzania.
This project is a massive boost to east africa and we can not let egypt ruin a good project.