Combats sur le Nil : la guerre de l’eau ?

Abstract

According to Egyptians, nothing should limit the flow of the Nile upstream from Lake Nasser. However, by the 1929 and 1959 agreements they had admitted that Sudan should construct dams on the Nile. Since 2010, Ethiopia has launched the 25-year Master Plan in order to build huge reservoirs, in particular the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile. Whereas the Blue Nile (86% of the flow at Aswan) has its source in Ethiopia (the population of which now exceeds that of Egypt!), Egyptian president Morsi threatened to bomb the building site. But, in disregard for treaties, Sudan has launched the construction of new dams upstream from Aswan. Since Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt reached an agreement on March 23, 2015 in Khartoum, the threat of a war of water on the Nile has receded.

Keywords

• North-East Africa
• Sudan
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Population growth
• Great dams