This situation created hydropolitical deadlock in the Nile Basin and it splits the Basin into upstream vs downstream positions. But Egypt and Sudan has publically declared that they will not sign the agreement on its current form. The ratification process is also begun in countries such as Ethiopia. On February 2011 Burundi became the sixth state in signing the treaty. In spite of the extraordinary summits of the Nile Council of Ministers in different cities from Nairobi to Addis Ababa to Cairo nothing was changed and on May 2010 Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda and after a couple of days Kenya signed the agreement. Despite the negotiation ended on 2007 hoping that Egypt followed by Sudan would come to agreement with upstream states the signing and ratification process was delayed for three years. The negotiation for the CFA took ten tough years. Now let us see Egypt`s view of the GERD and the CFA separately. On April 2013 Eritrean leadership has reaffirmed that it supports the so-called historic rights of Egypt on the Nile waters which has no any legal base under international water law or state practice. The view of Ethiopia is the view of all upstream states except Eritrea whose bandit styled leadership remains as a servant of the interest of its sponsors in its armed struggle against Ethiopia for decades. ![]() In part I of this series I have stated the Ethiopian view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the Cooperative Framework Agreement of the Nile (CFA).
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