The Ethiopian position on Egypt's rights in the Nile River

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

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Institute of African and Nile Basin Research and Studies at Aswan University

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 Ethiopia uses water as a political weapon even in the opposition's struggle with its governments in every country in the Nile River Basin. In Sudan, for example, at a time when relations between the Sudanese and Egyptian governments worsened, some threatened to use water as a political weapon to pressure the other side, and this happened in 1996 and 1997.

Hence, the international conflict in the Nile River basin interacted with three strategic factors: the water factor, the investment factor, and the factor of geopolitical and geostrategic considerations. These three factors are in open conflict with each other; Which makes the conflict in the Nile River basin extend and linked to countries that are not in the Nile Basin, certainly in the geographical sense, such as Chad and Libya, or countries such as Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, or countries such as Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, or countries such as Iran and Turkey, or countries such as Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. Like South Africa, all these countries are not major countries, but rather regional countries that have interests linked to one or more of these factors. The multi-faceted open strategic conflict occurs, when each of the three factors develops to create a field of its own requirements within the general system of conflict.

• The first topic: the Ethiopian position on the historical rights of Egypt

• The second topic: Ethiopian violations of Egyptian rights until the construction of the Renaissance Dam

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