Egypt’s President has said his country’s share of the Nile River’s waters are “untouchable” in a stark warning to Ethiopia, which is building a giant dam on the Nile’s main tributary.
The comment from President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi comes amid a deadlock in the years-long talks over the dam between the Nile Basin countries, which also includes Sudan.
In a news conference on Tuesday, Mr. el-Sissi warned of “instability that no one can imagine” in the region if the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is filled and operated without a legally binding agreement.
“No one can take a single drop of water from Egypt, and whoever wants to try it, let him try,” he said. “No one imagines that it will be far from our capabilities.”
A media officer at the the Ethiopian Embassy in Cairo declined to comment on Mr. el-Sissi’s remarks.
Mr. El-Sissi was firm while discussing the dam dispute at a news conference in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. He visited the crucial,…