Question
This leader was asked to leave the AUSSOM mission after he recognized a government in exchange for a naval base. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this leader of the Prosperity Party who agreed to end a border conflict by ceding the town of Badme. This leader launched a war with a northeastern neighbor in 2020 after winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
ANSWER: Abiy Ahmed [or Abiy Ahmed Ali; prompt on Ahmed]
[10h] Under Abiy, Ethiopia has also raised tensions with nearby nations after finishing construction of this massive project on the Blue Nile, located near the country’s border with Sudan.
ANSWER: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [or Hidase Dam or Millennium Dam; accept Tālāqu ye-Ītyōppyā Hidāsē Gidib]
[10e] Ethiopia has feuded with this country over the control it will have over waterflow that ends up in the Nile. This country has been governed by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi since 2014.
ANSWER: Egypt [or Misr]
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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 0% | 33% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 40% | 40% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 13% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Florida A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Florida State A | UCF C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Valencia A | UCF B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan B | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan C | Kenyon | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Case Western A | Michigan D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Case Western B | Michigan State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State B | Carnegie Mellon A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont B | UCSD | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Carleton | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Wisconsin B | Winona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgetown A | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern B | Georgetown B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Notre Dame C | Iowa | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford B | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Notre Dame B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UW B | Alberta | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UW A | UBC | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Louisville A | Tennessee A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Warwick B | Bristol | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge D | Sheffield | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Cambridge E | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Durham | Southampton B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Cambridge C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial B | Southampton A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU C | Manchester | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford A | Oxford C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| TAMU | Texas A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas B | ASU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Haverford A | George Washington A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| John Jay College | Penn B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell D | Binghamton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| RIT B | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| ESF A | RIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Vassar A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B | Haverford B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |