Ethiopia: Egyptian Foreign Minister in Ethiopia for Talks Over Nile Water

17 June 2013

Addis Ababa — Ethiopian foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom on Monday met his visiting Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Kamel Amr, in Addis Ababa where the two sides discussed Ethiopia's controversial dam (Grand Renaissance Dam), which Cairo says will diminish its water share from the Nile River.

Amr's visit comes only a few days after Ethiopia's parliament unanimously ratified the new Nile River Cooperative Framework Agreement which six Nile basin countries signed in Uganda in 2010 to reverse a pre-colonial treaty that gave nearly all the Nile waters share to Sudan and Egypt.

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