Author: Menekse Sozbilir

Menekse Sozbilir is a PhD candidate at the Chair of African Legal Studies at the University of Bayreuth.

Colonial ‘treaties’ are not worth the paper unless expressly and freely adopted by the independent State 

I. Background   Ethiopia has constructed the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, some 14 kilometres east of its border with Sudan. This…