Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan continue discussions around contentious barrier

(MENAFN) Bureaucrats stated that Egypt, Ethiopia as well as Sudan continued their years-long discussions on Sunday around the contentious barrier Ethiopia is constructing on the Nile River’s key stream.

The recommencement of discussions occurred following Leader Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as well as Ethiopia Premier Abiy Ahmed stated in July that they intend to sign in four months a deal on the use of the USD4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. The Blue Nile encounters the White Nile in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, ahead of curving northward across Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.

Egypt worries a destroying effect if the barrier is functioned without bearing its requirements in mind. It described it an existential danger. The Arab world’s most crowded nation depends nearly completely on the Nile to supply water for food production and its at least 100 million citizens. Around 85 percent of the river’s stream comes from Ethiopia.

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