Egypt’s Foreign Ministry condemned Dec. 17 an Ethiopian cross-border attack on Sudanese military troops near Sudan’s border with Ethiopia. Cairo fears that the Ethiopian dam will reduce its annual share of the Nile River, Egypt’s only source of freshwater. Sudan boycotted the latest round of the Nile dam negotiations Nov. 21, demanding a change in the negotiations methodology to make a breakthrough in the tripartite talks. Abu Taleb noted that Sudan was the party that boycotted the Nile dam negotiations due to the failure of the African Union-sponsored talks to make any breakthrough. “Sudan constitutes a strategic depth to Egypt and any attack on Sudan poses a threat to Egypt’s national security,” Mazloum told Al-Monitor.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2020 13:18 UTC