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BORDER TENSION

RELATIONS WERE ALREADY BAD BECAUSE OF ETHIOPIAN DAM PROJECT

ETHIOPIA

• Alandlocked country in the Horn of Africa.
• Ethiopia is the most populouslandlocked country in the world and the second-most populous nation on the African continent.
• Population –11 crore

WATER A MAJOR ISSUE

• The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), a global database for all things water access, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) related and the leading source on WASH data, reports that tens of millions of people in the Ethiopia are still relying on contaminated drinking water.
• In total, 31.1 percent (a third of the population), rely on unprotected water for their daily needs.

RELIGION IN ETHIOPIA

SUDAN

• Africa’s third-largest country and also the third-largest in the Arab world. It was the largest country in Africa and the Arab world by area before the 2011 South Sudan’s secession.
• Population –4.20 crore
• Religion plays an important role in Sudan, with 97% of the country’s population adhering to Islam.

BORDER ISSUE

BORDER ISSUE

• Ethiopian cross-border attack which left at least one Sudanese soldier and a child dead, according to Sudan’s military. Three Sudanese civilians and a soldier were also wounded.
• The attack, which took place in the eastern province of al-Qadarif, started after an Ethiopian militia group penetrated Sudan’s border to fetch water at the Atbara river, Brigadier Amer Mohammed al-Hassan, a spokesman for the Sudanese military, said.

BORDER CRISIS ONGOING FOR A WHILE NOW

THE BIGGERISSUE

• Sudan and Ethiopia share a common boundary that stretches over 1,600 kilometers(994 miles). The border was drawn following a series of treaties between Ethiopia and the colonial powers of Britain and Italy. However, to date, this boundary lacks clear demarcation lines.

SUDAN’S ABOUT-TURN IN ETHIOPIA’S MEGA DAM PROJECT

• The border dispute could complicate Ethiopia’s plan to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
• Sudan had initially backed Ethiopia’s project but later refused to sign on an initial agreement which would have paved the way for Ethiopia to begin filling the dam.

GRAND ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE DAM

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