Sudan warned Ethiopia Saturday (6 February) against going ahead with the second phase of filling its mega dam on the Blue Nile, saying it would pose a “direct threat to Sudanese national security”. “If Ethiopia goes ahead with filling the renaissance dam next July, this will be a direct threat to our national security,” Sudan’s Water Minister Yasser Abbas told AFP in an interview in the capital Khartoum. Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia restart Nile mega-dam talks Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia kicked off Sunday (1 November) the latest round of talks over Addis Ababa’s controversial dam on the Blue Nile, waters critical to the two downstream nations. “It will be impossible to operate the Roseires Dam without a binding agreement and daily exchange of information on the amount of water flowing from the renaissance dam,” Abbas said. The Nile, the world’s longest river, is a lifeline supplying both water and electricity to the 10 countries it traverses.

Source: Ethiopian News February 08, 2021 07:18 UTC