Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Tuesday held talks wwith his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni in Cairo, in which the contentious matter of River Nile was mentioned.
At a joint press conference with Museveni, Sissi vowed to rob all measures to give protection to his country’s water security.
Sisi’s remarks beget been most likely in reference to Ethiopia’s Tall Renaissance Dam (GERD). Cairo fears the dam will cut the volume of water flowing to it.
Addis Ababa has brushed aside the assertion.
“Anyone who imagines that Egypt will flip a blind stare to an existential threat to its water security is unsuitable… We are able to continue to monitor the situation and rob all measures supplied for under international legislation to safeguard our people’s existential resources,” Sisi warned as quoted by ahram online.
A decade of negotiations between the downstream nations and Ethiopia has didn’t build an settlement.
Ethiopia has accused Egypt and Sudan of in the hunt for to curtail its development ambitions.
Last 12 months, a unusual Nile water sharing accord – the Cooperative Framework Settlement (CFA) – backed by seven international locations took scheme, drawing protests from Cairo and Khartoum.
Several upstream international locations beget long argued that the downstream states of Egypt and Sudan had been unfairly distributed increased rights over the river Nile by colonial-era agreements.
The Nile River has long been a focal level of geopolitical tension in eastern Africa, particularly between Egypt and Ethiopia.
