The tension rises between the Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt after the failure of negotiations for an agreement on the filling of the reservoir and the commissioning of the high dam of the Renaissance (Gerd). Ethiopia wants to start filling the reservoir in July, with or without the agreement of the other two countries. Egypt, which considers this project as a threat is ” existential “, has called on the security Council of the UN to intervene, referring to the attitude “non-positive” of Ethiopia and its ” insistence on wanting to fill the dam in a unilateral way “. “We don’t want escalation. The negotiations are the only solution “, told the press in Khartoum, the sudanese minister of Irrigation, Yasser Abbas. For him, ” it is important to get an agreement before the start of filling operations “. “The Sudan has the right to ask,” he continued.
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Yasir Mohamed, sudanese minister of Irrigation, participates in a videoconference on the dam Renaissance on 9th June last. © ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP
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Saturday, egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ensured that his country remained supportive of a political solution. “When we had recourse to the security Council, this was due to our willingness to take the political and diplomatic until the end. “At the request of Egypt, the question of this controversial dam has been put on the agenda of a meeting in video-conference of foreign ministers of the arab League on Tuesday, said on Monday AFP a diplomat of the League. If Ethiopia sees the dam is 145 meters high as essential to its development and its electrification, the Sudan and Egypt fear it will restrict their access to water. The Nile, which flows on some 6,000 kilometres away, is a source of supply of water and electricity essential to around a dozen countries in East Africa. Egypt derives 97 % of its water needs from the river.
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