the Legal Effect and Implications of the Declaration of Principle on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd)
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2023-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Natural resources are unevenly and erratically distributed throughout the earth. Even worse The
Nile Basin has been considered as a potential hotspot for conflict on a resource. The Ethiopian
Grand Renaissance Dam is a powerful counter-hegemonic force to change the unfair status quo in
the region.
But The signing of the Declaration of Principles (DoP) presents difficulties because of the
reformulation of the provision, The DOP is a loss in a way that it made possible a purely national
project subject to trilateral negotiations, the DOP is a strategic mixer against the National Interest
of Ethiopia. This could be seen as the declaration aims at holding another purpose, which is
providing detailed yet vague procedures for the use of the GERD which had a great power to
change the long-standing and inequitable utilization of the basin, by which Ethiopia was not
obliged to agree to build the Dam.