Khartoum — North and South Sudan have struck a preliminary agreement to share Nile waters if the latter becomes fully independent as expected in a referendum vote set to take place in January 2011.
The disclosure was made on Sunday by Sudan's state minister for irrigation and water resources, Salah Yousif, who told the privately owned Al-Akhbar daily newspaper that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in north Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the south had reached a "preliminary" agreement to continue sharing Nile Waters in the case of south Sudan secession.
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