#downstream
More than two decades after the launch of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), in 1999, aimed at attaining sustainable socioeconomic development by ensuring fair use and shared benefits from the common water resources of the Nile Basin, tensions remain high as upstream and downstream countries grapple over rights to the Nile river’s life-sustaining flow. The NBI initiative was the collective work of nine countries that share the Nile River, including the downstream countries, Egypt, Sudan, and upstream countries, Ethiopia, Uganda,…
