Egypt, Ethiopia Fms İn Sudan For Nile Dam Meeting

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia arrived in Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday to participate in a Tuesday meeting of a tripartite committee – that also includes Sudan – on a multi-billion-dollar hydroelectric Ethiopian dam on the Nile.



Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Water Minister Hossam al-Moghazi were welcomed at Khartoum International Airport by Sudanese Water Minister Moataz Moussa.



Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom also arrived in the Sudanese capital, while Water Minister Alemayehu Tegenu was expected to arrive later in the day.



Egypt and Ethiopia are locked in talks over the potential ramifications of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).



Egypt fears the dam will negatively affect its traditional share of water from the Nile, its only source of water.



Ethiopia, for its part, says the project is indispensible to its own national development and the economic welfare of its burgeoning population.



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