{"id":21459,"date":"2018-11-07T07:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21459"},"modified":"2018-11-07T07:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:22:54","slug":"egypt-wants-formal-agreements-with-ethiopia-over-water-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21459","title":{"rendered":"Egypt wants \u2018formal agreements\u2019 with Ethiopia over water share"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1400326\/middle-east\" readability=\"61\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egypt wants \u201cformal agreements\u201d that Ethiopia will not reduce Cairo\u2019s share of the Nile during the filling of what will be Africa\u2019s largest hydroelectric dam.<\/p>\n<p>\nPresident Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told reporters on Tuesday \u201cwe need to turn Ethiopia\u2019s goodwill into formal agreements\u201d and ensure the dam is not used for \u201cpolitical purposes.\u201d He did not elaborate, saying only that Egypt has seen \u201cpositive signs\u201d from Ethiopia\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>\nEgypt fears the $4.8 billion dam could reduce its share of the Nile River, which provides virtually all its freshwater. Ethiopia says it needs the dam for its economic development.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/17\/untitled-1_copy_47.png\" width=\"260\">The two have been at odds over how quickly the reservoir behind the dam will be filled and the impact it would have on Egypt\u2019s share of the Nile.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe dam is now 63 percent finished, and Ethiopia hopes to become a key energy hub in Africa upon its completion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe main sticking point with Egypt concerns how quickly the reservoir behind the dam is filled, and the impact that will have downstream.<br \/>Egypt has received the lion\u2019s share of the Nile\u2019s waters under decades-old agreements seen by other Nile basin nations as unfair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nPast Egyptian presidents have warned that any attempt to build dams along the Nile will be met with military action, but El-Sisi, has ruled that out.<br \/>Sudan appears to be taking Ethiopia\u2019s side in the negotiations, and has revived a longstanding border dispute with Egypt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egypt wants \u201cformal agreements\u201d that Ethiopia will not reduce Cairo\u2019s share of the Nile during the filling of what will be Africa\u2019s largest hydroelectric dam. President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told reporters on Tuesday \u201cwe need to turn Ethiopia\u2019s goodwill into formal agreements\u201d and ensure the dam is not used for \u201cpolitical purposes.\u201d He did not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}