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Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement
October 20 , 2024
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- The multinational agreement is regulating the use of the Nile River’s waters has officially entered into force, despite strong opposition from Egypt.
- The Nile Basin Initiative is a partnership of 10 riparian countries headquartered in Entebbe, Uganda.
- The Nile is spanning 11 countries but only five countries signed and ratified the treaty.
- Egypt and Sudan have yet to sign the agreement.
- They both have long been embroiled in a dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
- The GERD, a massive hydropower project on the Blue Nile, is providing electricity to Ethiopia’s 120 million citizens.
- Egypt views the dam as an existential threat, as the Nile supplies 97 percent of its water needs.
- The Nile Basin Initiative includes Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, while Eritrea participates as an observer.
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