{"id":4204,"date":"2026-01-31T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/en\/home\/ethiopias-nuclear-bid-energy-bet-east-africa-power-play"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:40:51","slug":"ethiopias-nuclear-bid-energy-bet-east-africa-power-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/en\/articles\/ethiopias-nuclear-bid-energy-bet-east-africa-power-play","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;S Nuclear Bid: Energy Bet, East Africa Power Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press. <\/strong> <\/span>Ethiopia is placing its nuclear ambitions on the table of strategic calculations, a move that raises fundamental questions about the trajectory of the nuclear path and its timing. While Addis Ababa adopts a policy of maximizing energy gains, it is escalating its ambitions toward nuclear power and reaping its multiple benefits. Observers believe this option reflects a strategic orientation with multiple objectives and aims.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Ethiopia\u2019s nuclear energy commissioner, Sandokan Dibebi, stated that Ethiopia\u2019s decision to pursue nuclear technology stems from its awareness of the importance of national energy security, economic transformation, and long-term national resilience.<\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks during a high-level meeting to officially launch Ethiopia\u2019s nuclear energy program and activate the Ethiopian Nuclear Energy Commission. The event, held in Addis Ababa on December 8, according to the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA), brought together senior officials, including Foreign Minister Gideon Timotheos, Nuclear Energy Commissioner Sandokan Dibebi, and the IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy, Mikhail Chudakov, alongside senior government officials and relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ethiopian agency, attention was directed to a project to build a massive nuclear power plant, described as part of the major development initiatives recently announced by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p><b>The strategic alternative<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s path to securing its energy has not been smooth; the \u201cGrand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam\u201d project, which took more than a decade, has remained entangled in political and legal disputes with Cairo and Khartoum. Despite Ethiopia\u2019s success in imposing a new water reality, Ethiopian ambition has leapt toward the \u201cnuclear option\u201d as an alternative that transcends natural constraints and neighbors\u2019 disputes. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed affirmed his country\u2019s \u201ccommitment to developing a safe, transparent, and exemplary nuclear program for peaceful purposes in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.\u201d He also pledged a massive budget of $30 billion, recently announced as part of goals to strengthen energy security in Ethiopia and support industrial transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Experts\u2019 views suggest that this step is not merely a technical energy project, but a repositioning in the regional balance of power and a guarantee of an ambitious roadmap across multi-purpose energy domains. Addis Ababa has earmarked investments to build the major nuclear plant, considered the cornerstone of a package of projects launched earlier by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to decouple economic growth from geographic volatility.<\/p>\n<p>Last year saw intentions turn into procedural steps, as a strategic agreement was signed with the Russian energy giant \u201cRosatom\u201d in September 2025 to build the first nuclear plants. To give the effort an official framework, the \u201cEthiopian Nuclear Power Commission\u201d (ENPC) was formed as the sovereign engine of this program, which extends to a revolution in the industrial sector, strengthening food security, and developing scientific and technical research through the use of radioisotopes in agriculture and medicine.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disputes remain<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alongside technological ambition, diplomacy has not calmed: regarding the Renaissance Dam, disagreements remain intense between Ethiopia and the two downstream countries demanding a legal agreement that secures their water rights. Last December witnessed a sharp exchange, as Ethiopia\u2019s Foreign Ministry described Egypt\u2019s recent positions\u2014through which Cairo threatened Ethiopia\u2014as a \u201ctilt toward escalation.\u201d Addis Ababa argues that Cairo\u2019s insistence on what it calls \u201cexclusive claims\u201d over Nile waters has become the biggest obstacle to regional prosperity, while reiterating its entrenched right to use the \u201cAbay\u201d River (the Blue Nile).<\/p>\n<p>Tensions peaked after the official inauguration of the Renaissance Dam in September 2025, when Ethiopia accused its northern neighbor of seeking to isolate it internationally and attempting to destabilize the Horn of Africa to create \u201cweak and compliant\u201d entities that serve the Egyptian agenda\u2014reflecting the depth of the rift and the lack of trust.<\/p>\n<p><b>A contested wager<\/b><\/p>\n<p>African affairs researcher Abdel Samad Hassan argues that \u201cthe path through which Addis Ababa diversifies its energy sources\u2014whether through electricity, gas, geothermal energy extracted from the ground, wind, solar energy, or the turn to nuclear power\u2014represents a response to an integrated energy development project.\u201d He notes that \u201cnuclear technology also has a very large number of uses, including in medicine where it is highly efficient, and it is used in agriculture and for peaceful, educational purposes. Therefore, the nuclear field encapsulates this diversity of benefits that Ethiopia needs.\u201d Hassan stresses a strategic point: Ethiopia is said to possess uranium ore reserves, qualifying it to achieve self-sufficiency in operating its reactors away from import pressures or international financing, which could be used as a tool of obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian economic researcher Abdelrahman Ahmed emphasizes the need to strip these projects of \u201cconspiracy theory,\u201d explaining that Ethiopia aspires to reach a generation capacity exceeding 42,000 gigawatts of electricity. The goal is to present an inspiring \u201cEthiopian model\u201d for African countries, proving the continent\u2019s ability to master complex technology despite geopolitical obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, international relations specialist Mohammed Ibrahim Hasbo says: \u201cRegionally, the nuclear program grants Ethiopia the symbolism of a \u2018rising power,\u2019 but it adds a sensitive element to East Africa\u2019s fragile environment. Acquiring a nuclear reactor requires political stability, strong institutional capacities, and massive financing\u2014support Ethiopia would need from Russia or China\u2014which deepens major powers\u2019 presence in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hasbo adds: \u201cThe still-active disputes over the Renaissance Dam affect acceptance of this project; the two downstream countries do not view the nuclear program as merely a development initiative, but as an extension of the fait accompli approach Ethiopia adopted in the water file. Because of this legacy, the project remains surrounded by doubts about Ethiopia\u2019s intentions, especially amid the rising competitive dimension between it and Cairo and the emergence of energy as one arena of strategic competition between the two countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>International backing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the international level, Ethiopia\u2019s nuclear energy program received endorsement from the IAEA Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi. In remarks delivered during an online seminar, according to the Ethiopian News Agency, Grossi stressed \u201cthe importance of establishing Ethiopia\u2019s nuclear energy authority to develop and regulate nuclear energy in line with international safety and security standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out that \u201cnuclear power has strong potential as a reliable, fast, low-carbon source of electricity, which helps significantly accelerate social and economic transformation in Ethiopia.\u201d He added that \u201cthis initiative can also stimulate industrial growth and secure highly skilled job opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grossi further affirmed \u201cthe Agency\u2019s full commitment to support Ethiopia through advisory services and capacity-building at every stage of its program to develop nuclear capabilities,\u201d noting that \u201cthe Agency is currently working with Ethiopia within its technical cooperation program to strengthen human resources, institutional capacities, and readiness for future phases of infrastructure development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Africa<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press. Ethiopia is placing its nuclear ambitions on the table of strategic calculations, a move that raises fundamental questions about the trajectory of the nuclear path and its timing. While Addis Ababa adopts a policy of maximizing energy gains, it is escalating its ambitions toward nuclear power and reaping its multiple benefits. 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