Ethiopia has slammed US President Donald Trump’s recent “belligerent threats” regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute after Trump said Egypt will “blow up theDam”. “Ethiopia will not cave in to aggressions of any kind,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said in a statement. “Ethiopia may be confronted with poverty but are rich with history, patriotic citizens whose commitment to defend their country’s sovereignty is unparalleled.” In a call with Sudan’s Prime Minister while announcing that Sudan and Israel would normalize relations, Trump told reporters on Friday that the dam dispute is a “dangerous situation because Egypt is not going to be able to live that way and they’ll end up blowing up the Dam.” Trump added that the United States had “stopped payment…a lot of aid” to Ethiopia. “I had a deal done for [Egypt and Ethiopia] and then unfortunately Ethiopia broke the deal which they should not have done, that was a big mistake. We’ve stopped payment to them of a lot of aid because they did it.” “They will never see that money unless they adhere to that agreement,” Trump added. #Eygpt will “end up blowing…
