Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry - Getty Images
The Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation announced that Egypt signed a technical cooperation protocol with South Sudan, to prepare a draft for feasibility studies for the construction of the multi-purpose Wau Dam.
The project will be on Siwi River, one of the main branches of the Jur River in western South Sudan, flowing through the Bahr el-Ghazal and Equatoria regions.
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said that the Ethiopian allegations that Egypt and Sudan are working to internationalize the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue outside the framework of the African Union (AU) were an attempt to evade and disavow any international mechanisms that would contribute to solving the dam issue.
Shoukry has called Ethiopia’s recent statements against Egypt and Sudan in the ongoing Nile dam crisis as provocative.
He added that Egypt is aware of its rights and how to defend them.
“We always seek peaceful means, and we resort to international bodies and mechanisms,” Shourky stressed.
Shoukry said that “we reached a point where no progress is being made regarding the resumption of the negotiations amid the Ethiopian intransigence,” stressing his appreciation for the AU efforts.
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