Members of Amhara region militias ride on a truck to go fight the Tigray People's Liberation Front , in Sanja, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9 2020. Picture: REUTERS/TIKSA NEGERI
It is not just the bloodshed that will leave an indelible mark on Ethiopia. This conflict can have regional and economic consequences, far beyond the Tigray region. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, on the Blue Nile River, looms large in this conflict. A contender for most elaborately named dam on the continent, it is also one of the most contested. Just weeks before this round of violence began US President Donald Trump seemed to justify Egypt’s veiled threats toat withholding about $100m in aid to Ethiopia as it moved forward with plans to fill the dam without addressing Egyptian and Sudanese concerns about the flow of water.
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