Sudan: Egypt, Sudan Reject Other Nile Basin Countries’ Involvement in GERD Talks, Insist Tripartite Negotiations Only

Addis Abeba — Egypt and Sudan have insisted that negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) should remain confined to the three riparian states and dismissed what they claimed were efforts to involve other Nile Basin countries.

In a joint communiqué released released Wednesday, 3 September, following a “2+2” consultative meeting of the foreign and water ministers of both countries in Cairo, the two governments warned that Ethiopia’s “unilateral steps” to fill and operate the…