Ethiopia Will Not Recognize Egypt, Sudan Claims to Nile, FM Says The Media Line Staff 04/18/2021
Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister said that Ethiopia “cannot and will not agree” to recognize Egyptian and Sudanese claims to water from the Nile River.
The comments came in the wake of failed talks between Ethiopia and Egypt and Sudan over Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam, built on the Blue Nile River, the main tributary of the Nile River. In an online event on Thursday set up by the Ethiopian Embassy in London, Demeke Mekonnen said that Egypt and Sudan wanted to force Ethiopia to agree to water quotas they set in a 1959 treaty, which Ethiopia was not involved in, The New Arab reported.
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Sisi s first visit to Sudan since the 2019 revolution aims to revive the two countries relations, and address tensions with Ethiopia over its Nile dam.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Khartoum on Saturday on his first visit to Sudan following the revolution which ousted longtime autocrat Omar Bashir in April 2019.
Sisi met the head of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the two leaders discussed the issue of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam.
The Egyptian presidency published a statement saying that Sisi and Burhan expressed their opposition to unilateral actions which seek to impose a fait accompli and monopolise the Blue Nile s resources , in a reference to Egypt and Sudan s ongoing dispute with Ethiopia over the Nile.