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Egypt sees progress in settling Nile issues

Cairo appears to be making some headway in realigning with members of the Nile Basin Initiative and resolving its issues with the Entebbe Agreement, seven years after it was signed.
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam seen under construction during a media tour in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, Ethiopia, in this March 31, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/Files - RTX2AAWN
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CAIRO — Egypt is working to restore a cooperative flow of water-sharing solutions with members of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).

On March 13, the NBI Ministerial Committee held talks in Khartoum, Sudan, among the water ministers of Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda, in addition to representatives from Kenya and Ethiopia. An Egyptian participant in the meeting told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity that the talks focused on the possibility of Egypt reactivating its NBI membership. Egypt had frozen its NBI membership in 2010 in protest of the Entebbe Agreement, which rearranged Nile water allotments.

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