Egypt and Sudan have rejected the recently ratified Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework (CFA) agreement, which officially enters into force today, 13 October, after being ratified by six upstream countries. Egypt and Sudan have long argued that the CFA violates the 1929 and 1959 Nile River Agreements. The entry into force of the CFA comes after six Nile River basin countries – Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda – ratified the agreement at a meeting in Bujumbura, Burundi, earlier this year. The treaty signed in 1959, and still in force, assigns 75 percent of the waters to Egypt, leaving the remainder to Sudan. The most important of these initiatives was born in 2010 and was called the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).

Source: Ethiopian News October 13, 2024 10:33 UTC