The national technical committee on the grand renaissance dam will resume its meetings after the Friday prayers to discuss the scope and mechanism of work of the two international consultancy firms chosen to carry out the dam’s studies.

The meetings will be held in the presence of the water resources ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia.

The meetings were held on Thursday but Sudan proposed resuming them after the Friday prayers as the members were exhausted after meeting for over 14 hours, well-placed sources told MENA.

The moot point was raised by Ethiopia when it requested that the French firm be the sole manager of the studies and that the Dutch firm works under the French’s management and that it undertakes 30% of the work at most, which both Egypt and the Dutch firm rejected.