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Updated on October 14, 2024 to correct an important typo.
Toronto – The Nile Basin Cooperation Framework Agreement (also known as Entebbe Agreement) has entered into force as of October 13, 2024.
The agreement aims to ensure equitable use of the Nile and a shared responsibility in the protection of the resource. The agreement also establishes the Nile River Basin Commission to manage the resource.
The Nile Basin Initiative, which was established in 1999, has 10 members namely Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Eritrea has also joined the initiative as an observer.
Six of the member states have enacted the cooperative agreement and is effective as of today. Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda have ratified the agreement with majority vote.
Egypt and Sudan have rejected the agreement on equitable use of the Nile river. In a joint statement they released, they said the agreement that the six states signed is not binding. The two countries argue that an “established” international law is violated and have been arguing to make colonial era agreement (to which many of the Nile Basin countries are not signatory) a point of reference in sharing water from the Nile river.
“They[Egypt and Sudan] reaffirm that the ‘CFA’ is not binding on either nation, not merely due to their non-accession to the agreement but also because it contravenes established principles of customary and conventional International law. Furthermore, Egypt and Sudan affirm that the six-state commission established under the incomplete ‘CFA’ draft can not, under any circumstance, be regarded as representative of the Nile Basin as a whole.”
The ratification of the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement came in the wake of a tripartite agreement signed between Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia in the Eritrean capital Asmara. The alliance, as reported by the BBC, is anti-Ethiopian Alliance. There are emerging reports that Egypt attempted to include Djibouti in the alliance but the latter declined.
The ratification of the Nile Basin Cooperation FrameWork Agreement could prove to be a hurdle for Egypt, a Nile basin country which has recently been manipulating the Federal government in Mogadishu with whom the former signed a military pact.
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday published a brief update on its social media page hailing the agreement as “a remarkable achievement.” Ethiopia said “the principles enshrined in the CFA fix historic wrongs, ascertain equitable use and foster mutual understanding and shared responsibility.”
Unlike Egypt, Ethiopia expressed confidence “that the entry into force of this agreement will yield significant benefits for the basin states and contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable future.”
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Nowhere in this agreement can be found a declaration by any party to the documents a plan to top or slow the flow of the Nile. There is nothing that condemns the construction of the GERD dam. All these countries share the brunt of the adverse climate change. They are victims of such harmful change in climate at no fault of their own. To cope with the change they have to harness every natural resource they are endowed with including the rivers they have been watching just flowing by and drenching Sudan and Egypt.
Egypt is using the water to build amusement water parks while these African countries have more than 75% of their population lacking potable water. They have been dealing with diseases that can be avoided by availing clean water. Egypt cry foul when it sees in any of these countries build a tiny irrigation waterway when itself build a canal that transports water from the Nile River all the way to high profile tourist resorts on the other side of the Red Sea. These black folks have the inalienable rights to develop their natural resources including the rivers inside their territories and have no intentions to harm their neighbors near and afar. Egypt is scratching where and when it does not itch.
” Eritrean capital Addis Ababa” ?
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“The ratification of the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement came in the wake of a tripartite agreement signed between Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia in the Eritrean capital Addis Ababa. The alliance, as reported by the BBC, is anti-Ethiopian Alliance. There are remerging reports that Egypt attempted to include Djibouti in the alliance but the latter declined. “
Thank you for the correction
Well, it is not an ‘error’ as such, but perhaps a ‘vision’.
Well, once upon a time they shared the same Flag and lived together in harmony, meanwhile some self-hating, angry & the ‘violent’ (uncultured) among us came along and speared hate and violence, and the harmony that existed between brothers was shredded to pieces and replaced with unimaginable hate, death, sufferings and hunger that continued till this day.
However, these brotherly people who have been intermarried and had developed deep family ties for thousands of years, traveled far and wide, lived wherever they wished, spoke whatever language they knew, freely worshiped their God, and lived next to each other without any prejudices, were forced (brainwashed) to be enemies to one another by these self-serving dimwits that come one after the other.
Soon enough ‘The four horsemen” of our nation are doomed to die off along with the miseries they brought upon us all. The family ties and deeply shared wisdom of these brotherly people will soon come together again, wash off their sorrows, and build their nation and live in peace & harmony for ever and ever.
Be well.