Trump says he believes progress possible between Egypt, Ethiopia on Nile dam

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes progress is possible between Egypt and Ethiopia as he resumes efforts to resolve their long-running dispute over the “very dangerous issue” of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Anadolu reports. Trump said the dam “basically blocks the Nile River,” suggesting that he will “see if I can get” negotiations “back on track.” “It’s a dangerous thing. They built a dam where somebody is not getting the water that they are supposed to get and that they’ve gotten for a million years, and all of a sudden the water flow is blocked by a very massive dam,” Trump said, as he hosted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. “I think we’ll be able to get […]