Nile Talks Founder, Escalating Tension Between Africa Powers
- Dispute revolves around filling by Ethiopia of giant Nile dam
- Egypt sees any unilateral move as regional security threat
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African Union-brokered talks ended without an agreement on a disputed dam project on the Nile River’s main tributary, potentially ratcheting up tensions between two key U.S. allies on the continent.
The negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia have again foundered over the pace at which the country plans to fill the 74 billion cubic-meter reservoir, stoking Egypt’s concern that it will lose control over its water supply to a regional upstream rival.