Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchen Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/treasury-secretary-steve-mnuchen/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 07 Nov 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchen Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/treasury-secretary-steve-mnuchen/ 32 32 US mediated talks will get agreement on use of Nile water by January https://jjcornish.com/2019/11/us-mediated-talks-will-get-agreement-on-use-of-nile-water-by-january/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/11/us-mediated-talks-will-get-agreement-on-use-of-nile-water-by-january/ Egypt, Sudan and  Ethiopia are planning to conclude a deal on access to the Nile River waters by January. They’re sitting at the table in Washington for talks mediated by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchen. Since Ethiopia’s at the root of the Nile Water issue by building the Grand Renaissance Dam, it is hardly surprising […]

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]]> Egypt, Sudan and  Ethiopia are planning to conclude a deal on access to the Nile River waters by January.

They’re sitting at the table in Washington for talks mediated by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchen.

Since Ethiopia’s at the root of the Nile Water issue by building the Grand Renaissance Dam, it is hardly surprising that they are sounding less than compromising

The talks are not negotiations, insist the team from Addis Ababa.

The largest hydro electric dam will be completed across the Blue Nile, which provides 80% of the water to the world 12th largest drainage basin.

What has to be decided is how much water Egypt will get after Sudan has taken its share upstream.

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