Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have once again failed to agree on a new negotiating approach to resolve their years-long dispute over the controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River. Sudan’s water ministry said in a statement: “Water ministers of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia agreed to end this round of negotiations over Ethiopia’s Nile dam.”“This round … failed to make any tangible progress,” the statement read. Ethiopia is building the dam on the Blue Nile, which joins the White Nile in Sudan to become the Nile river – the world’s longest and a lifeline supplying water and electricity to the 10 countries it traverses. But Egypt and Sudan have expressed concerns the dam will reduce the flow of the Nile waters to their countries. Sudan and Egypt have long called for a political solution to the dispute, rejecting any unilateral action by Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News November 05, 2020 07:20 UTC