An Ethiopian Response to the Nile Water Dispute

Ethiopia Insight posted on 8 December 2019 a commentary titled "Sink or Swim: Unlocking the Nile Impasse" by Mahemud Tekuya, University of the Pacific.

The author, an Ethiopian, argues that if the current effort to resolve differences between Ethiopia and Egypt fails over the fill rate behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, Ethiopia should not agree to accept mediation by the United States and the World Bank as both tend to favor Egypt. He suggests that the Nile Basin Initiative or the African Union would be a more neutral mediator. Alternatively, Ethiopia could ask the International Court of Justice to rule on the validity of the 1902, 1929, and 1959 treaties that govern Nile water allocation but were never agreed to by Ethiopia.