Egypt relies on the Nile for 95% of its water supply. The Nile River with a length of 6690 km and an average outflow of 2830 cubic meters per second crosses ten African countries. Egypt’s needs will increase in the future due to its growing population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 85% of Egypt’s agriculture depends on the Nile River. The combination of prolonged droughts due to the phenomenon of climate change combined with the declining water supply due to GERD from Ethiopia creates a nightmarish scenario for Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a9The law of intellectual property is prohibited in any way unlawful use\/appropriation of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the infringer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n GERD<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This has significantly increased hostility between Ethiopia and Egypt over water use, leading to dangerous deadlocks for both countries. GERD has cost more than $ 4 billion and Ethiopia considers it the most valuable project for its people, as its massive power supply will drive 65 million people out of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To finance the project, the Ethiopian government issued bonds which were bought en masse by the Ethiopian people. In July 2020, Ethiopia filled the GERD for the first time with 4.9 billion cubic meters of water. With the completion of the second phase of construction of the GERD last July (2021), Ethiopia proceeded to a second filling with about 13 billion cubic meters of water, again causing tensions between Egypt and Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GERD Confronted Policies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the collapse of talks between the three countries in the African Union (AU) in April, Egypt lodged a complaint with Ethiopia at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in June 2021. At the same time, Egypt was supported by all its members. Arab League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Egypt’s goal is for the Security Council to impose a binding agreement between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on the use of the Nile. But the Security Council does not want to be involved. At the same time, the United States is abstaining, especially after Ethiopia withdrew from the US-mediated negotiations in 2020. Each side blames each other for a lack of political will to compromise, raising tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The insidious role of Turkey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ethiopia recently signed a military and economic cooperation agreement with Turkey. Turkey can use Ethiopia as a lever of pressure-to Egypt to better treat the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in return for Turkish troops and mercenaries equally to remain in Libya, but also to fully demarcate the border. EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) between Egypt and Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Egypt will have to invest in ever-increasing desalination plants in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, respectively, and adopt new water generation technologies. For more information on new technologies and policies needed to resolve the dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the proper use of Nile water please read the analysis entitled \u00abThe Policies-Solutions to resolve the Conflict Between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to control the Waters of the Nile River<\/a>\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tensions in the Horn of Africa have risen since Ethiopia announced in July that it was completing the second phase of construction of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[835,3],"tags":[2838,154,1219,2836,1218,2837],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa-geopolitical","category-geopolitical","tag-conflict","tag-egypt","tag-ethiopia","tag-gerd","tag-nile-river","tag-soudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-77.png\")
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