With the approaching date of the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and its expected negative effects, the past days witnessed a technical debate about the dam between political activist and engineering consultant Mamdouh Hamza, and the Egyptian government and the media close to it.
The controversy is caused by the publication of Mamdouh Hamza – who lives outside Egypt after judicial rulings against him – a number of videos regarding the Renaissance Dam, in which he talked about the historical background of the dam, and the interference of some enemies of Egypt to participate, finance and encourage the construction of the dam, and a number of technical matters that confirm the negative impact Great Dam on Egypt.
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With Hamza’s fame as a political activist, he is considered one of the most prominent consulting engineers in the field of civil engineering, especially soil engineering, and his advisory office participated in a number of important projects, the most famous of which are building the headquarters of the Library of Alexandria, developing Ain Sukhna in Egypt, as well as the building of the Ministry of Finance in Algeria, and developing Gulf of Aqaba, Jordan.
The debate began with a video clip published by Hamza, in which he talked about the historical backgrounds of the dam, and several previous Ethiopian attempts to divert the course of the Blue Nile to deprive Egypt of the Nile River, always encouraged by a third party, who were in the past colonial countries hostile to Egypt, noting that the third party is in the current Renaissance Dam crisis. It is global Zionism.
The international consultant blamed the successive Egyptian governments during the last decade for opening the door for Ethiopia to build the dam, by approving the successive technical meetings and their outcomes.
Hamza indicated – in the video – that the goodwill of Egypt and Sudan was the most powerful weapon that Ethiopia relied on, and it may lead to the loss of the rights of the two countries in the Renaissance Dam, in favor of global Zionism, which aims to control the river’s water, and make it a commodity to be traded on global stock exchanges, which began last year in Water shares traded for the first time.
The first video clip was widely popular on social media, and was covered by a number of media outlets, including the Egyptian opposition channels abroad, and a number of Egyptian opposition activists in Egypt and abroad, but it did not call for any response from the Egyptian government or government media.