By Kieran Burke/DW
Egypt and Sudan on Saturday welcomed an offer by US President Donald Trump to pick up mediation efforts with Ethiopia over the Nile mega-dam project.
Last year, Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a move that was not well received by neighboring Egypt and Sudan, downstream.
On Friday, Trump posted on social media a letter he sent to el-Sissi, saying: “I am to U.S. between Egypt and Ethiopia to responsibly resolve the question of ’The Nile Water Sharing’ once and for all.”
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he valued “President Trump’s attention to the central importance of the Nile River issue for Egypt,” in a post on social media.
He said his country is committed to “serious and constructive cooperation with the Nile Basin countries, based on the principles of international law, in a manner that achieves shared interests without causing harm to any party.”
Sudan’s
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