Reuters has reported.
Major-General Sameh Saber El-Degwi, an intelligence official, headed an Egyptian delegation to the Ugandan capital Kampala to sign the intelligence sharing deal. The fact that Uganda and Egypt share the Nile, cooperation between the two countries is inevitable because what affects Ugandans will in one way or other affect Egypt, he was quoted as saying in a Ugandan army statement.
The White Nile, one of the Nile river s two main tributaries originates in Uganda. Ethiopia has built the GERD on the Blue Nile, which originates on its territory and is the source of 80 percent of the water reaching Egypt.