Egypt: Sudan Foreign Minister Postpones Visit to Egypt Until Early March - Report

20 February 2014

Khartoum — The Cairo-based al-Masri al-Youm newspaper quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti will travel to Cairo in early March after the postponement of an earlier visit scheduled for this month drew speculations about strains in relations

The two countries are at odds over the construction of the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia along the Blue Nile which Egypt says will adversely impact its historical rights in the Nile waters and is illegal without their consent in accordance with the 1929 (Colonial era accord between Egypt and Great Britain) and 1959 (Bilateral pact between Egypt and Sudan) Nile water treaties.

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