Can Sudan change course of Nile dam talks? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Jul 3, 2020

Sudan's Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Yasir Mohamed takes part in a video meeting at the ministry in Khartoum on June 9, 2020, over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi strongly rebuked Ethiopia, accusing Addis Ababa of stalling negotiations over a mega-dam being built on the Nile and moving ahead with plans to start filling the reservoir before reaching a deal. The agreement signed between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan paved the way for diplomatic talks aft — Sudan's Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Yasir Mohamed takes part in a video meeting at the ministry in Khartoum on June 9, 2020, over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. — ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images

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Sudan's Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Yasser Abbas (R) and Minister for Foreign Affairs Omar Gamar al-Din are pictured during a video conference.

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A fisherman is pictured in his boat on lake Tana, in the city of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, on November 11, 2020. - Lake Tana, a UNESCO biosphere reserve, is the origin of the blue Nile river that feeds the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

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