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US Official Attacks China’s ‘Manipulation’ of the Mekong
September 5th, 2020
Via The Diplomat, an article on how Southeast Asia’s mighty river is quickly becoming a new front in US-China competition: A senior American diplomat has criticized China’s string of hydropower dams on the Mekong River, becoming the latest U.S. official to raise alarm about their possible effects on countries downstream. David R. Stilwell, assistant secretary of […]
Read more »Struggling With Drought on the Mekong
September 3rd, 2020
Via The Diplomat, an article on how climate change and dams combine to push the Mekong’s water levels to record lows: Drought, climate change, and the construction of dams – on a scale that beggars belief – are threatening a river system that traverses five countries and feeds 70 million people who live hand to […]
Read more »Sudan, Ethiopia Vow ‘All Efforts’ To Resolve Nile Dam Dispute
August 31st, 2020
Via Terra Daily, an article on efforts to resolve the Nile dam dispute: Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed vowed Tuesday to make every effort to resolve a dispute also involving Egypt over Addis Ababa’s giant Nile river dam. Egypt and Sudan view the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as […]
Read more »Egypt, Sudan Kick Off Another Round of Nile Dam Talks
August 22nd, 2020
Via Al Monitor, a report on a new round of meetings between the Nile Basin countries has resumed as Sudan and Egypt try to unite on controlling damage from the Ethiopian dam: During Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly’s Aug. 15 visit to Khartoum, Egypt and Sudan resumed cooperation on getting Ethiopia to sign a comprehensive and binding agreement setting the rules […]
Read more »Fight Over The Nile: Preview of Climate Change Diplomacy
August 18th, 2020
Via Slate, a look at how a fight over the world’s longest river is a preview of climate change diplomacy: The Book of Genesis describes the pharaoh of Egypt having two dreams: one in which he is standing by the Nile and sees seven fat cows devoured by seven thin cows, and one in which he […]
Read more »Debt on the Nile? Sharing Rivers on the African Continent
August 12th, 2020
Via The Wilson Center, a look at international coordination along the Nile: Trouble is brewing on the Nile. For years, use of the river was mainly about the needs of Egypt, by far the largest and most powerful riparian country in the basin. But since the Arab Spring of 2011, the situation has changed considerably. […]
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