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A |     Under construction since 2011, the GERD project is one of the largest public infrastructure projects in Ethiopia, and will be the biggest hydroelectric power plant on the African continent once finished next year.,The third phase of the filling of a massive reservoir, capable of holding up to 74 billion cubic meters of water, was completed this week, with two of the dam’s planned 16 turbines now operational. When construction is finished, the dam will be capable of generating some 6,000 megawatts of power – more than double the average output of a WER-1000 nuclear reactor.,AfricaWATCH Water Pour Over Spillway on Ethiopia’s GERD Hydroelectric Dam After Finishing Third FillingYesterday, 22:33 GMT,In a ceremony inaugurating the project on Friday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stressed that the dam was Ethiopia’s “gift,” and that it was “Ethiopia’s responsibility to use it” together with the other two Nile Basin countries - Egypt and Sudan.,“PM @AbiyAhmedAli reiterated that Ethiopia is working to ensure the benefits of the lower basin countries, saying that our Abbay River [Ethiopia’s term for the Blue Nile, one of the two major tributaries of the Nile] takes what it deserves while passing on what others deserve,” the prime minister’s office tweeted following the ceremony.,PM @AbiyAhmedAli reiterated that Ethiopia is working to ensure the benefits of the lower basin countries, saying that our Abbay River takes what it deserves while passing on what others deserve. He also congratulated all Africans on this milestone. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/Be9WtrHczO— Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) August 12, 2022,Just Deserts,The question of which country “deserves” what has been the subject of considerable consternation and debate between the three nations, as has the dam’s potential environmental impact, with Cairo and Khartoum fearing the filling of the 145 meter tall, 1.8 km long dam could threaten the region with droughts and floods. Last month, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry warned that Cairo would defend its interests using “all means available” at its disposal, and called on the United Nations Security Council to negotiate a legally binding agreement between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on regulating the dam’s operation. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi earlier called the GERD dispute a “red line” security issue.,Ethiopian Ambassador to Russia Alemayehu Tegenu dismissed these concerns, telling Sputnik last month that Egypt and Sudan were trying to “internationalize and politicize the dam to solve their internal affairs” and assuring that the dam “has no significant harm” for the downstream nations.,WorldEgypt, Sudan Politicising Renaissance Dam Construction, Ethiopian Diplomat Says27 July 2021, 08:23 GMT,Nile River: Giver of Life,Stretching some 6,695 km and covering over 3.3 million square km, the Nile is the longest river in the world, and has played a significant role in regional civilizational development going back to the Ancient Egyptians owing to the rich soil perfect for agriculture created by its annual flooding, and its use as a tool for regional river navigation. Ethiopia’s Blue Nile tributary accounts for a whopping 85 percent of the Nile’s total waters.,Egypt, which receives almost no rainfall, relies on the Nile for more than 90 percent of its freshwater, with eastern Sudan similarly dependent on the river for its economic wellbeing and water and food security.,Legacy of Colonial Meddling,Part of the difficulty of regulating the dispute over the Nile is the lack of a regional agreement regulating the waters’ flow. Addis Ababa is not a party to the 1959 bilateral treaty between Egypt and Sudan dividing the Nile’s waters.,A separate 1929 Nile Waters Treaty between Britain and its then-puppet state of Egypt, plus the territories of what are now Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Sudan provided Cairo the right to veto infrastructure projects up the Nile if they threatened to impact the country’s interests. However, that treaty similarly didn’t apply to Ethiopia, which managed to survive as the only independent nation in Africa after the European imperialist scramble for the continent in the 19th century, and which was never consulted on the agreement’s terms.,Russia’s Position,As a strategic partner of both Ethiopia and Egypt, Russia has sought to assure the dam dispute’s peaceful and mutually amenable resolution, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicating in 2021 that Moscow would be ready to provide technical assistance for any negotiations on the matter. Russia also supports the use of the African Union platform to resolve the crisis.,Also last year, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia called on the three countries to stick to the terms of the 2015 Declaration of Principles on the GERD, which urged consensus in reaching an agreement on guidelines for the dam’s filling and operation, and committing Ethiopia to avoid steps which could harm its downstream neighbors. “At the same time, we note legitimate concerns of Egypt and Sudan over the possible negative impact that unconstrained functioning of the dam may produce on the populations of those countries in drought prone years,” he said.,The 2015 agreement and efforts at the African Union and UN levels mean that a baseline for a breakthrough and compromise exists. However, amid regional and global concerns about food and water security, and the threats posed by increasingly prevalent climate disasters and extreme weather events, the GERD dispute comes during a period of heightened regional and global tensions.,In 2021, Africa and Middle East intelligence analysis group Pangea-Risk warned that an all-out water war between Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, or their proxies was becoming increasingly probable in the face of dwindling options for a mediated solution.。    Sophie 编译 奥克兰警方连夜突击检查了全市94个加油站，此前一周，从Warkworth到Tuakau，奥克兰的5家加油站遭遇入室行窃及抢劫。         在上周日早晨发生的一起抢劫案中，九名抢劫者冲进了Western Springs Caltex的柜台，追赶孤身一人的工作人员。其中一些袭击者持有锤子。         Advertise with us          探长Glenn Baldwin说，自周日以来，警方正在调查五起加油站事件，包括Western Springs的持械抢劫以及Green Bay的另一起，以及对Papatoetoe、Glen Eden和Remuera加油站的入室行窃。         他们仍在追捕犯案的大部分罪犯。警方表示，至少其中一些可能是同一罪犯所为，并将Western Springs的抢劫与之前发生在Mt Roskill TAB的一起抢劫联系起来，一名青少年昨天因此被捕。         在Counties Manukau地区，警方逮捕了5人，他们涉嫌参与12月和1月在奥克兰南区的10起加油站持械抢劫案。所有被捕的人都在13到19岁之间，Baldwin说。         “我们正在调查涉及多起这类犯罪的罪犯之间的潜在联系。

B | ”          “我们对这类犯罪的经验是，通常罪犯会参与不止一起案件。”          周四，警方表示，他们连夜对奥克兰各地的94个加油站进行了“预防性检查”。         “从奥克兰北部的Warkworth到南部的Tuakau和Mercer，我们的一线警察优先前往了加油站，并为工作人员提供安全保障。”Baldwin说。         ““在其中一个加油站，有一名男子因为与抢劫无关的事情被逮捕。”          “初步反馈很积极，我们将继续进行这样的巡逻，作为我们的一项部署。

C | ”          除了一连串的加油站犯罪事件外，警方还逮捕了一名2月29日持械抢劫Mt Roskill TAB的青少年。         Baldwin说：“昨天晚些时候，警方在Mt Roskill的一个地址执行了一份搜查令，一名16岁男子被逮捕并被控以持械抢劫。”          “调查进展顺利，预计会有更多人被逮捕。”          警方表示，他们已经将TAB事件与三天后Western Springs的持械抢劫联系起来。         “与我们的社区一样，警方对一些在工作中发生的暴力行为感到震惊。

D | ”          “我们将继续努力追究那些对企业和员工造成伤害的罪犯的责任。”          相关阅读：          奥克兰又一家加油站被抢了！工作人员遭袭击          两天内三家加油站被抢，奥克兰的治安还在恶化！          新西兰日常：13岁当劫匪，青少年光天化日打劫西区加油站......          注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。

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