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Egypt: Cooperation with countries of the Nile Basin

By on July 15, 2010
A number of agreements are being prepared to strengthen cooperation with various countries of the Nile Basin, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Nasreddine Mohamed Allam said.

These cooperative projects include the digging of 180 wells in Kenya, 30 wells in Tanzania and 200 million dollars aid to Uganda, the minister said.
The secretary general of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with Africa, Fatma Galal, had denied that Egypt would have to expulse out of the Fund experts from countries of the Nile Basin, because of the agreement signature by five countries bordering the Nile, about the fair use of the Nile waters.
The support of Egypt to the Nile Basin countries is irreversible, the minister said, despite the disagreement, on the topic, with upstream countries – Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, on the new agreement signed in May, and its boycott by Cairo.
Back to the colonial era (1929) and according to a treaty, Egypt and Sudan have the right to use approximately 90% of the water resources of the Nile and Cairo has the right to veto any project affecting the river water flow…

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