Egypt is playing a waiting game as Ethiopia prepares to make the fifth, and final, filling of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) by the end of July. Cairo has long feared that the infrastructure project will reduce its own water supplies from the Nile, Africa's longest river, which serves as a lifeline for the North African country's population of over 106 million. The multibillion-dollar project is over 94 per cent complete and the fifth filling is expected to add 23 billion cubic metres of water to the dam's reservoir. This will raise the amount of water stored in the reservoir to 64 billion cubic metres, creating an area 300 square kilometres larger than
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