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Three International Water Conflicts to Watch
November 15th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a report on three international water conflicts that bear watching: International water conflicts are a prisoner’s dilemma fundamentally rooted in geopolitics. Neither up nor downriver states can live without it, and water is the lifeblood of development and economic growth. Yet one (upriver) state has a fundamental advantage over the other (downriver) state. […]
Read more »Egypt and Ethiopia’s Dispute Is Getting Worse
November 8th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at what started as a disagreement over water rights threatens to develop into a proxy war in Somalia. Egypt has been displeased with Ethiopia’s plan to dam the Blue Nile River since the project was announced more than a decade ago. Egypt’s very existence depends on its access to the […]
Read more »Nile Pact Enters Into Force Despite Egypt Objections
October 16th, 2024
Via Seed Daily, an article on the Nile River pact, which entered into force recently despite Egypt objections: A landmark multinational agreement on managing the waters of the Nile River has entered into force — over the vehement objections of Egypt.The Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) took effect on Sunday after more than […]
Read more »Three International Water Conflicts to Watch
October 11th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a report on three international water conflicts to watch: International water conflicts are a prisoner’s dilemma fundamentally rooted in geopolitics. Neither up nor downriver states can live without it, and water is the lifeblood of development and economic growth. Yet one (upriver) state has a fundamental advantage over the other (downriver) state. All […]
Read more »Somalia Accuses Ethiopia Of ‘Deliberately Releasing Water’ To Cause Flooding
October 4th, 2024
Via The Addis Standard, an article on Somalia’s president’s accusations that Ethiopia is ‘deliberately releasing water’ to cause flooding: Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has accused Ethiopia of “deliberately releasing water from reservoirs at dams upstream” to cause flooding in Somalia, escalating tensions between the two Horn of Africa nations. In an interview with The Economist on […]
Read more »Greening The Desert: Is Sisi’s Grand Plan Using Up All of Egypt’s Water?
July 31st, 2024
Via The Guardian, a report on how President Sisi’s ‘Future of Egypt’ plan envisages turning tracts of desert into farmland to grow crops for export. But with sky-high food price inflation and a water deficit, critics doubt it is viable: For the two hours drivers can spend on the eight-lane, often empty, highway from Cairo […]
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