Update from MMW GERD Support
Most esteemed supporters of MMW GERD more minor and dramatic things have happened since we posted on our website some updates last time.
First the Good news
Minnesota Midwest gallant and dedicated supporters have continued to make financial support to GERD. We want to earnestly thank you all for that and joyfully inform you the first transfer of $ 40,000.00, (forty thousand dollars) has been sent directly to Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam account in Addis Ababa. Congratulations to all.
Successful completion of the construction of the Dam is a test of our resilience before our generation that we are required to take and pass. To do so come and join gallant Ethiopians and earnestly respond to the call of the motherland by donating your financial support as soon as you can.
We encourage all who haven’t contributed to support the Dam to do so as soon as you can. Links to donate are on this Website.
On March 27 we will have Midwest wide fundraising campaign via zoom link to support the Dam.
Please listen to your local Amharic radios and other media outlets.
Progresses in different fronts
Construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam has continued despite sustained internal and external sabotages. So far over 76% of the major works of the Dam have been completed.
First Feeling of the water was completed in July 2020
Driven with the spirit of unapparelled patriotism thousands of Ethiopians continue to work on the Dam enthusiastically and diligently day and night. We owe them tones of gratitude.
Ethiopians in the country and in the Diaspora have continued to support the construction of the Dam financially and otherwise. That gives us hope.
Ethiopia has continued to show enormous patience and generosity in playing its role in the tripartite negotiation with confidence, firmness and genuine desire to have an agreement that will eventually make all parties be winners in the negotiation and its outcome without giving away its right to the Abbay river waters by signing a harmful agreement.
The Law-and-order operation to bring peace and stability in Tigray is over and massive efforts to restore electricity, water, roads, airports, relief food distribution, bank and telephone operations, and delivery of medical services are well underway, and things are slowly but steadily going back to normal despite some isolated incidents here and there.
Challenges
There are thousands of internally displaced people in Tigray regions
There are nearly 60,000 refugees in Sudan that have fled their homes due to the war
There are internal and external elements who do not want the situation to go back to normal and have launched massive mass-media campaign to make Ethiopia look bad by stating that it is starving and displacing people in Tigray and so forth and thereby have international communities sanction Ethiopia
Sudan and Egypt not only have continued to conspire against Ethiopia, Sudan has taken advantage of the internal conflict in Ethiopia and mobilized its army and stole from Ethiopia several hundreds of square kilometers of fertile farmland along the river. This very delicate situation could at anytime blowup into full fledged war between Sudan and Ethiopia and destabilize the Horn.
Ethiopia is demanding that Sudan move from its occupied farmland without precondition and be willing to enter into negotiation where they in good faith would resume the border demarcation discussions.