Special Envoy in Badrashin (Egypt)
The season of threats has returned.
A few weeks before the first summer rains, on which Ethiopia is counting to continue the filling, started in July 2020, of its Great Renaissance Dam (Gerd), Egypt is raising the tone.
The country, which depends on more than 90% of the Nile to water its cultures and its population, fears that the uncoordinated progress of this gigantic project upstream of the river threatens its water supply in the long term.
On Monday March 30, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned that
"no one can afford to take a drop of water from Egypt, otherwise the region will experience unimaginable instability"
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The Ethiopian authorities refuse to be intimidated and reaffirm their determination to continue the filling process.
Tuesday, yet another round of negotiations organized in Kinshasa under the patronage of the Congolese head of state, Félix Tshisekedi, the current president of the African Union, took place on Tuesday.
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