CAIRO, EGYPT - Egypt’s president lavished praise on President Donald Trump via social media, calling him a “man with unique power to confront crises.”Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi’s comments were the latest public example of the two leaders’ closeness. Sissi thanked Trump for his “generous concern” for helping revive Egypt’s deadlocked dispute with Ethiopia. The two countries are at odds over Ethiopia’s construction of a massive upstream Nile dam, which Egypt claims threatens its water supply. Pro-government media in Egypt have cast the dam as a national security threat that could warrant military action. The White House said in October that it supports talks to reach a sustainable agreement while “respecting each other’s Nile water equities.”

Source: Ethiopian News November 05, 2019 17:15 UTC