Egyptian Lawyers Preparing Lawsuit Challenging Support for GERDJanuary 18, 2017 - A group of Egyptian lawyers and political activists are preparing a lawsuit to challenge a preliminary deal agreed by Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on Ethiopia’s Nile dam project in March 2015, reported egypt media on Wednesday. The group of lawyers and activists now aim to overturn Sisi’s decision to agree to the Nile Dam declaration, claiming that the agreement is not in the interests of Egypt. Why Egyptians are worried about the GERDAny development which might interfere with the flow of the Nile waters is of great concern to Egypt. Attempts were made to build the dam during the era of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who asserted that Egyptian access to its annual quota of the Nile’s waters is a matter of life or death. But successive Egyptian administrations seem to have been caught by surprise by Ethiopia’s determination to implement the GERD.

Source: Ethiopian News January 19, 2017 02:10 UTC