CAIRO - Egypt has urged international mediation over what it called "deadlock" in talks in Sudan over a massive dam under construction on the Nile River, sparking fresh tensions with Ethiopia. An impasse was reached after Ethiopia "rejected all the proposals that take Egypt's water interests into account," the ministry added. The Ethiopian foreign ministry rejected Egypt's call for international mediation as "an unwarranted denial of the progress" of talks. Its main tributaries -- the White Nile and the Blue Nile -- converge in Khartoum before it flows through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. Analysts fear that the three Nile basin countries could be drawn into a conflict if the dispute is not resolved before the dam begins operating.

Source: Ethiopian News October 06, 2019 10:18 UTC