There is an agreement on most of the issues of the filling and operation of the dam but there are differences in the future water development projects on the Abbay Basin, she said in media briefing on January 5, 2021. “But the program on Monday was canceled because of the absence of Sudan,” she added. Immediately, Egypt’s Intelligence Chief Abbas Kamel visited Khartoum where he discussed GERD, wide-scale cooperation and regional developments with top Sudanese officials. Three years later, a series of tripartite talks between the two countries along with Sudan began to reach an agreement, while Ethiopia continued the dam construction. In October 2019, Egypt blamed Addis Ababa for hindering a final agreement concerning a technical problem, calling for activating Article No.

Source: Egypt Today January 07, 2021 13:30 UTC