Politics
Ethiopia and Egypt tone down the rhetoric regarding Nile Dam development
Adhanom said consultations would take place without halting construction of the dam.
“I would like to assure our Egyptian brothers and sisters that, as we have been doing, we will address the security concerns of Egypt and Sudan,” said Adhanom.
Egypt, whose population uses almost all of the Nile water available to it, cites a 1929 pact formulated by colonial Britain which entitled Cairo to 55.5 billion cubic meters a year of the Nile’s flow of around 84 billion cubic meters.
The source of the Nile is in Uganda at Lake Victoria – Africa’s largest fresh water lake.
Ethiopia and five other upstream Nile countries including Kenya and Uganda, say those claims are outdated and have signed a deal effectively stripping Cairo of its veto based on colonial-era treaties over dam projects on the river.
