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Congo leader visits Sudan, Egypt for talks on Nile dispute
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SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press
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CAIRO (AP) Congo’s president, the current head of the African Union, met Saturday with Egyptian and Sudanese officials amid international and regional efforts to relaunch negotiations over Ethiopia’s disputed dam on the Nile River’s main tributary.
President Felix Tshisekedi was received by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Susan’s ruling sovereign council, at the Khartoum s airport. The two leaders then headed for talks at the presidential palace. Sudan s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok also attended the talks, according to a statement by the sovereign council.
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.