Egypt, Ethiopia leaders discuss Sudan’s crisis, Nile dam dispute
ISTANBUL (AA): Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held a meeting in Cairo with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to discuss the conflict in Sudan and a dam project on the Nile River.
The talks came ahead of a summit of Sudan’s neighboring countries in Cairo on Thursday to discuss means of resolving the Sudanese conflict.
A statement by the Egyptian Presidency said the two leaders discussed ways to settle the crisis in Sudan, enhance relations between Egypt and Ethiopia, and the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Egypt views the GERD as a threat to its water share from the Nile River, the country’s only source of fresh water, and wants Addis Ababa to reach a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the dam.
Ethiopia sees the dam as crucial for its development and denies any harm to the water share of Egypt and Sudan, two downstream countries.
Years of negotiations between the two countries have failed to make any breakthrough.
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