Egypt has not yet consented to the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam despite President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signing a tripartite agreement with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile Waters.
Egyptian ambassador to Kenya Mahmoud Ali Jalaat said in an exclusive interview that the agreement signed in Khartoum on March 23 between President al-Sisi, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was simply a declaration of principles based on good faith, “out of the desire by Cairo to positively engage the Nile Basin countries.”
