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A | Under construction since 2011, the GERD project is one of the largest public infrastructure projects in Ethiopia, and will be the biggest hydroelectric power plant on the African continent once finished next year.,The third phase of the filling of a massive reservoir, capable of holding up to 74 billion cubic meters of water, was completed this week, with two of the dam’s planned 16 turbines now operational. When construction is finished, the dam will be capable of generating some 6,000 megawatts of power – more than double the average output of a WER-1000 nuclear reactor.,AfricaWATCH Water Pour Over Spillway on Ethiopia’s GERD Hydroelectric Dam After Finishing Third FillingYesterday, 22:33 GMT,In a ceremony inaugurating the project on Friday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stressed that the dam was Ethiopia’s “gift,” and that it was “Ethiopia’s responsibility to use it” together with the other two Nile Basin countries - Egypt and Sudan.,“PM @AbiyAhmedAli reiterated that Ethiopia is working to ensure the benefits of the lower basin countries, saying that our Abbay River [Ethiopia’s term for the Blue Nile, one of the two major tributaries of the Nile] takes what it deserves while passing on what others deserve,” the prime minister’s office tweeted following the ceremony.,PM @AbiyAhmedAli reiterated that Ethiopia is working to ensure the benefits of the lower basin countries, saying that our Abbay River takes what it deserves while passing on what others deserve. He also congratulated all Africans on this milestone. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/Be9WtrHczO— Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) August 12, 2022,Just Deserts,The question of which country “deserves” what has been the subject of considerable consternation and debate between the three nations, as has the dam’s potential environmental impact, with Cairo and Khartoum fearing the filling of the 145 meter tall, 1.8 km long dam could threaten the region with droughts and floods. Last month, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry warned that Cairo would defend its interests using “all means available” at its disposal, and called on the United Nations Security Council to negotiate a legally binding agreement between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on regulating the dam’s operation. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi earlier called the GERD dispute a “red line” security issue.,Ethiopian Ambassador to Russia Alemayehu Tegenu dismissed these concerns, telling Sputnik last month that Egypt and Sudan were trying to “internationalize and politicize the dam to solve their internal affairs” and assuring that the dam “has no significant harm” for the downstream nations.,WorldEgypt, Sudan Politicising Renaissance Dam Construction, Ethiopian Diplomat Says27 July 2021, 08:23 GMT,Nile River: Giver of Life,Stretching some 6,695 km and covering over 3.3 million square km, the Nile is the longest river in the world, and has played a significant role in regional civilizational development going back to the Ancient Egyptians owing to the rich soil perfect for agriculture created by its annual flooding, and its use as a tool for regional river navigation. Ethiopia’s Blue Nile tributary accounts for a whopping 85 percent of the Nile’s total waters.,Egypt, which receives almost no rainfall, relies on the Nile for more than 90 percent of its freshwater, with eastern Sudan similarly dependent on the river for its economic wellbeing and water and food security.,Legacy of Colonial Meddling,Part of the difficulty of regulating the dispute over the Nile is the lack of a regional agreement regulating the waters’ flow. Addis Ababa is not a party to the 1959 bilateral treaty between Egypt and Sudan dividing the Nile’s waters.,A separate 1929 Nile Waters Treaty between Britain and its then-puppet state of Egypt, plus the territories of what are now Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Sudan provided Cairo the right to veto infrastructure projects up the Nile if they threatened to impact the country’s interests. However, that treaty similarly didn’t apply to Ethiopia, which managed to survive as the only independent nation in Africa after the European imperialist scramble for the continent in the 19th century, and which was never consulted on the agreement’s terms.,Russia’s Position,As a strategic partner of both Ethiopia and Egypt, Russia has sought to assure the dam dispute’s peaceful and mutually amenable resolution, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicating in 2021 that Moscow would be ready to provide technical assistance for any negotiations on the matter. Russia also supports the use of the African Union platform to resolve the crisis.,Also last year, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia called on the three countries to stick to the terms of the 2015 Declaration of Principles on the GERD, which urged consensus in reaching an agreement on guidelines for the dam’s filling and operation, and committing Ethiopia to avoid steps which could harm its downstream neighbors. “At the same time, we note legitimate concerns of Egypt and Sudan over the possible negative impact that unconstrained functioning of the dam may produce on the populations of those countries in drought prone years,” he said.,The 2015 agreement and efforts at the African Union and UN levels mean that a baseline for a breakthrough and compromise exists. However, amid regional and global concerns about food and water security, and the threats posed by increasingly prevalent climate disasters and extreme weather events, the GERD dispute comes during a period of heightened regional and global tensions.,In 2021, Africa and Middle East intelligence analysis group Pangea-Risk warned that an all-out water war between Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, or their proxies was becoming increasingly probable in the face of dwindling options for a mediated solution.。近日，潍柴动力股份有限公司（以下简称“潍柴动力”）高管层密集变动，引发市场关注。继去年财务总监和董事会秘书离职后，最近半个月，两名80后执行总裁相继离任。2025年1月10日，潍柴动力发布公告称，执行总裁李鹏程因工作变动辞职，且不再担任公司任何职务。李鹏程出生于1984年2月，2006年7月加入潍柴动力，曾任市场部部长、重型车动力销售公司总经理等职，是公司一手培养起来的年轻骨干。2023年，李鹏程在潍柴动力获得的税前报酬总额为208.72万元。李鹏程持有潍柴动力2023年A股限制性股票激励计划授予的股份，这些股份将按规定被回购注销。在李鹏程辞职消息公布前不到半个月，2024年12月30日，潍柴动力也曾发布公告，宣布执行总裁王健因“工作需要”申请辞任公司执行总裁职务。王健同样是80后高管，出生于1980年2月，2003年7月加入潍柴动力，长期从事生产制造、工艺创新等一线工作，是潍柴卓越工程师。

B | 2023年，王健在潍柴动力获得的税前报酬总额为123.1万元。

C | 与李鹏程不同的是，公告称，王健离职后将继续在潍柴动力（含控股子公司）担任其他职务。在上述两位执行总裁离职的同时，潍柴动力副董事长张泉也于2024年12月30日因年龄原因辞职。张泉是一位在潍柴动力工作多年的老将，其离职属于正常的人事变动。

D | 山东一名长期关注潍柴动力的投资者认为，潍柴动力的频繁人事调整，或将不利于公司发展。短短半个月内失去两位核心管理人员，是否会对潍柴动力的管理层稳定性带来冲击？1月15日上午，新黄河·大鱼财经记者以投资者身份致电潍柴动力证券部，工作人员表示，两位执行总裁离任不会影响公司管理层稳定，“他们只是不在潍柴动力执行总裁岗位任职了，还有其他的任职。李鹏程不在潍柴动力任职了，还在集团其他单位任职。”工作人员说。将时间线拉长，可以看到潍柴动力高管层的变动并非近期才出现。早在2024年下半年，潍柴动力就经历了两次重要的人事变动。2024年11月11日，财务总监曲洪坤因工作变动辞职；更早之前的10月30日，董事会秘书高天超也因同样原因离任。