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Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan to meet January 13 over dam dispute, U.S. says

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Today's Vocabulary

1.resolve (v) 
to solve or end a problem or difficulty

2. dispute (n) 
an argument or disagreement, especially an official one between, for example, workers and employers or two countries with a common border 



3. reservoir (n)
a place for storing liquid, especially a natural or artificial lake providing water for a city or the area
 

4. mitigation (n)
the act of reducing how harmful, unpleasant, or bad something is

5. drought (n)
a long period when there is little or no rain

6. ministers (n) 
a member of the government in Britain and many other countries who is in charge of a particular department or has an important position in it 

Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan to meet January 13 over dam dispute, U.S. says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan plan to meet in Washington on Jan. 13 to resolve their dispute over a massive dam project on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, according to a joint statement issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday.

The foreign ministers and water ministers of the three African countries met with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and World Bank President David Malpass on Monday to work out differences over the $4 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the second such meeting in Washington since early November.

Egypt fears the filling of the dam reservoir on the Blue Nile tributary will restrict already scarce supplies of water from the Nile, on which the country is almost entirely dependent. Sudan is also downriver from the project.

Ethiopia says the hydroelectric dam, which will be Africa’s largest, is crucial to its economic development.

“The Ministers of Foreign Affairs look forward to reconvening in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 2020 to review the results of the upcoming technical meetings in Khartoum and Addis Ababa with the goal of finalising an agreement,” the statement said.

It said the ministers agreed that the technical meetings should try to develop rules and guidelines for the filling and operation of the dam, the definition of drought conditions, and drought mitigation measures.

Resource: https://www.euronews.com/2019/12/10/egypt-ethiopia-sudan-to-try-to-resolve-dam-dispute-in-jan-13-washington-meeting-statement

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