Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will accept an agreement to fulfil the giant Blue Nile dam in two to three weeks, after intervention by the African Union to broker a deal to settle a decade-long conflict over water supplies.
Ethiopia’s water minister, Seleshi Bekele, said that consensus had been reached to finalise a deal within two to three weeks, a day after leaders from the three countries and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who chairs the African Union, held an online summit.
Cairo had requested to the Council in a last-ditch diplomatic move directed at preventing Ethiopia from fulfilling the dam. The Council was expected to hold a public meeting on Monday to discuss the issue.
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