Ethiopian civil war: parties agree on end to hostilities

PM Abiy: Completion of #GERD ends #Ethiopia’s ‘thousand-year’ challenge Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has declared the completion and full operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as the end of Ethiopia’s “greatest historical challenge.” In a televised statement, Abiy described the Abay River [Blue Nile] as the “mother of all problems” Ethiopia had faced for centuries, arguing that its harnessing through the GERD marks the end of a "thousand-year struggle." He contrasted the achieveme