President Museveni has told countries sharing the River Nile to cease tension over the water and widen their consumption to River Congo in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The water of the Nile is 85 billion cubic metres per year. People do not remember that Congo has 3,000 billion Cubic metres of water every year and yet you are spending a lot of time almost killing each other over the Nile," Mr Museveni said at the opening of the 20th African Water Association (AFWA) International Congress and Exhibition at Kampala Serena Hotel yesterday.
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