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How to avert a war over the Nile between Egypt and Ethiopia ? - Coggle…
How to avert a war over the Nile between Egypt and Ethiopia ?
Abiy Ahmed
Ethiopia's prime minister
dam
Nile
filling the reservoir
2021 : first power
hostilities w/ Egypt
diplomatically
stakes
ressources of the Nile
4100 mile
11 African countries
History - civilisations
Egypt’s modern economy
Egypt's POV
threat
90 % of its fresh water
farmers
want...
to fill the reservoir over 15 years
to guarantee --> long-term flows
Ethiopia's POV
dam = everything
6,500 megawatts = more power
hope for transformation
Financed through patriotic bonds
history
plans announced : 2011
= Egypt --> Arab Spring
Addis, this moment ?
Nile : no proper framework agreement
starts in the Ethiopian highlands
+++ Sudan
BUT 1929 : a treaty orchestrated by the British
Egypt gets 75%
Sudan gets 25%
a colonial arrangement ?
a new crisis ?
sign
international mediation
US's Treasury
Africa's president
Two step solution
1ste : flexible, technically driven timetable
2ste : Egypt rejoin the Nile Basin Initiative
long-term framework