on Tuesday 30 March, 2021
Egypt’s Water Off Limits, Sisi Says, in Message to Ethiopia
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi warned Tuesday that any attempt to take “a drop of Egypt’s water” would have a destabilizing effect on the whole region, in some of his strongest remarks yet as Ethiopia plans to push ahead with filling a contentious Nile dam.
El-Sisi, speaking alongside the Suez Canal in events marking the freeing of a giant container ship that had been stuck for nearly a week, said that he wasn’t issuing threats and was hopeful about reaching a legally binding agreement on filling and operating the Renaissance Dam. At the same time, he said that if anyone wanted to take any of Egypt’s water, “let them try.”
“No one can take a drop of water from Egypt because this is a red line,” El-Sisi said.
Most read
Russia publishes list identifying 29 of the 133 Moscow attack victims
ISIS releases photo of alleged attackers in Russia shooting
'Massive' Russian air attack hits Western Ukraine, Kyiv; Poland says its airspace violated
Houthi and IRGC leaders hold a secret meeting in Yemen's Hodeidah
First machine guns, then screams, then Moscow's concert inferno