Sunday, 2 May, 2021 - 07:00
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of discord for years. (AP)
Khartoum, Cairo - Mohammed Amin Yassin and Walid Abdulrahman
Sudan said it might reconsider Ethiopia's sovereignty over the Benishangul region, where the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is built if Addis Ababa continues to disavow international agreements.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry denounced statements by Ethiopian officials who rejected the “colonial agreements” - a reference to the 1902 and the 1959 border treaties.
The ministry stressed that the “irrational complacency in using these misleading claims and disavowing previous agreements also means compromising Ethiopia’s sovereignty over the Benishangul region, which was transferred from Sudan under some of these agreements.”