![ETHIOPIA-EGYPT/NILE Security guards look at the construction of Ethiopia's Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia's border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX115K8](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2014/01/RTX115K8_1.jpg/RTX115K8_1.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=9Jjg_WnP)
![ETHIOPIA-EGYPT/NILE Security guards look at the construction of Ethiopia's Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia's border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX115K8](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2014/01/RTX115K8_1.jpg/RTX115K8_1.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=9Jjg_WnP)
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![ETHIOPIA-EGYPT/NILE Security guards look at the construction of Ethiopia's Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia's border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX115K8](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2014/01/RTX115K8_1.jpg/RTX115K8_1.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=9Jjg_WnP)
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