Kenya has signed the plan to liberalize the utilization of the resources of the River Nile to open it for implementation. Kenya signed the Cooperative Framework Agreement becoming the fifth country out of the nine member states to do so.
Kenya’s Water and Irrigation Minister Charity Ngilu signed the pact on behalf of the government, which has been rejected by Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda signed the pact last week in Uganda.
Speaking in Nairobi, Ngilu played down the threats by Egypt to talk donors out of financing projects along the River Nile.
Egypt, which is almost entirely dependent on the waters of the Nile, has warned that the new agreement lacks legitimacy saying it “reflects only the views of the seven states”.
Negotiations on the agreement started in 1997 but have been held back by Egypt and Sudan who objected to Article 14 (b) which they claim takes away their historical rights and uses of the Nile waters.
Source African Press Agency
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