#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep. 11: Meles Zenawi’s Nightmare Revisited: GERD, Gulf Money, and the Unmaking of Sovereignty Fifteen years ago, Ethiopia’s late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi warned that his nightmare would be an “Egyptian agenda financed by Gulf money.” Today, that warning reads less like prophecy and more like diagnosis. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia’s clearest symbol of sovereignty, is facing a coercive rhetoric from the U.S., and Gulf money, particularl