President of Uganda Museveni head out to Cairo on Tuesday for a much anticipated two-day visit. During a joint press conference, President Abdel Fattah el Sisi revealed that they discussed bilateral relations, trade, combating terrorism, the South Sudan peace process, and more prominently, the stalemate on the River Nile water-sharing laws between the Nile Basin countries. These talks have been prompted by the recent technical talks that took place last week among irrigation ministers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which ended in deadlock as reported by Hossam el-Emam, a spokesman for Egypt’s Irrigation Ministry. The stalemate in the water management plan is not new for the Nile Basin countries. However, the future of these treaties and laws is unclear seeing that Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, was sworn in a month ago. Egypt is mostly concerned with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that is currently being built as the Nile disputes take place although Ahmed have reiterated that the dam will not impact the other countries. Further disputes between the three countries are due to the duration of the start of the operation of the dam, with Egypt pushing…
