Business Daily (Nairobi)
23 June 2009
Talks over the sharing of the River Nile waters have reached another dead end. Egypt, as widely expected, has refused to sign the long-negotiated agreement and still wants to retain its "historic right to use 5.5 billion cubic meters of Nile waters per year.
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This old agreement will not be kept when Ethiopia and other countries get stronger ecomomicaly .It is clear that Ethiopia has the right on nile and our goverment is gone use the nile in the future and we can defend ourselves. Noone accepts such a deal which force Ethiopia to remain in poverty.