Negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia resume

NEGOTIATIONS resume between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia for the controversial Nile Dam project.

Negotiations between the three countries on this Ethiopian project, started in 2011, which aims to become the largest hydroelectric facility in Africa, have been stalled for several months.

The latest talks, which were held by videoconference in early November, ended without progress.

“Chancellor Omar Qamareddine and the Minister of Water, Yasser Abbas, will participate in a ministerial meeting on Sunday for negotiations on the Great Renaissance Dam (Gerd),” according to the Suna news agency.

The meeting will take place in the presence of officials from South Africa, currently at the head of the African Union.

Sudan will propose that African Union experts be given “a bigger role” in the negotiations to reach a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the dam, Suna added, citing a Sudanese official on condition of anonymity.

The dam is causing tensions in particular with Egypt, a country of more than 100 million people that depends 97% on the Nile for its water supply and which fears the facility will reduce it.

Cairo, but also Khartoum downstream, want a legally binding agreement, particularly on the management of the dam. Addis Ababa, which sees Gerd as essential to its development, is reluctant to do so and maintains that the water supply in these countries will not be affected.

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