You can inoffensively refer to your mother-in-law’s derriere in her hearing; I don’t know which other word you can do that without coming off as a despicable character. For NBI, is for peaceful and mutually beneficial utilisation of the Nile, shouldn’t allow any member country to regard another as the derriere of the Nile ecosystem. NBI should primarily rely more on scientific than political considerations which tend to narrowly categorise members as upstream (water contributors) vs downstream (water users). The openly voiced fear today is that downstream Egypt can deploy militarily to mess up upstream Ethiopia by setting-up non-member Somalia as a potential battleground in the process. NBI should leverage the huge power generation capacity along the Nile in Ethiopia and Uganda with the industrial advancement of Egypt to hasten economic development in the Basin.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 12, 2024 21:57 UTC