Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized ? | True Activist


Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from starvation due to their lack of financial wealth? According to the former CEO and now Chairman of the largest food product manufacturer in the world, corporations should own every drop of water on the planet — and you’re not getting any unless you pay up.
The company notorious for sending out hordes of ‘internet warriors’ to defend the company and its actions online in comments and message boards (perhaps we’ll find some below) even takes a firm stance behind Monsanto’s GMOs and their ‘proven safety’. In fact, the former Nestle CEO actually says that his idea of water privatization is very similar to Monsanto’s GMOs. In a video interview, Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe states that there has never been ‘one illness’ ever caused from the consumption of GMOs.
Watch the video below for yourself:
The way in which this sociopath clearly has zero regard for the human race outside of his own wealth and the development of Nestle, who has been caught funding attacks against GMO labeling, can be witnessed when watching and listening to his talk on the issue. This is a company that actually goes into struggling rural areas and extracts the groundwater for their bottled water products, completely destroying the water supply of the area without any compensation. In fact, they actually make rural areas in the United States foot the bill.
As reported on by Corporate Watch, Nestle and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe have a long history of disregarding public health and abusing the environment to take part in the profit of an astounding $35 billion in annual profit from water bottle sales alone. The report states:
“Nestlé production of mineral water involves the abuse of vulnerable water resources. In the Serra da Mantiqueira region of Brazil, home to the “circuit of waters” park whose groundwater has a high mineral content and medicinal properties, over-pumping has resulted in depletion and long-term damage.”
Nestle has also come under fire over the assertion that they are actually conducting business with massive slavery rings. Another Corporate Watch entry details:
“In 2001, Nestlé faced criticism for buying cocoa from the Ivory Coast and Ghana, which may have been produced using child slaves.[58] According to an investigative report by the BBC, hundreds of thousands of children in Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo were being purchased from their destitute parents and shipped to the Ivory Coast, to be sold as slaves to cocoa farms.”
So is water a human right, or should it be owned by big corporations? Well, if water is not here for all of us, then perhaps air should be owned by major corporations as well. And as for crops, Monsanto is already working hard to make sure their monopoly on our staple crops and beyond is well situated. It should really come as no surprise that this Nestle Chairman fights to keep Monsanto’s GMOs alive and well in the food supply, as his ideology lines right up with that of Monsanto.


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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Egypt and Ethiopia leaders meet over Nile row did not reach any agreement- Africa - Al Jazeera English


First talks on Ethiopia's plan to dam the Nile since Egypt's Mansour took power end without agreement in Kuwait.

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Under colonial-era treaties, Egypt is entitled to the lion's share of the Nile's total flow [AP]
The Egyptian and Ethiopian leaders have met for the first time to discuss tensions over Ethiopia's construction of a huge hydropower dam on the river Nile but the meeting ended without any agreement, sources said.
The Egyptian interim president, Adly Mansour, and Ethiopia's prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, met on Tuesday on the sidelines of an Afro-Arab Summit in Kuwait, sources familiar with the meeting told Al Jazeera.
It was the first meeting between leaders of the two countries over the Grand Renaissance Dam since the deposed Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, met Hailemariam in May.
Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile in May to build what will be Africa's largest dam when it is finished in 2017. Thirty percent of its construction has already been completed, according to Ethiopia. The hydropower station will have a 6,000-megawatt capacity when finished.
Hailemariam and Mansour met on the summit sidelines [Al Jazeera]
Egypt, almost totally dependent on the river, fears the dam could diminish its water supply. Ethiopia, which hopes the hydropower dam will boost its economy through power exports, has said there will be no major impact.
The sources said the Egyptian side had requested the meeting to "negotiate" over the project but that nothing was agreed.
Hailemariam, a source said, rejected a request from Mansour that he be involved in discussons about the project.
Colonial-era treaties negotiated by the British gave Egypt and Sudan a majority share of Nile waters. Seven other countries through which the river flows argue the agreements were unjust and need to be torn up.
Egypt’s only current recourse lies with a panel of 10 experts from Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and other countries who have been reviewing the social and environmental impact of the dam.
The panel has issued a report about the project's potential impact on water levels, which has not yet been made public.
At a one-day meeting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum this month the water ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed to form a panel to implement the expert recommendations.
But Egyptian objections about the composition of the committee have been delaying its formation, Ethiopia's water minister has said.
A second round of negotiations is scheduled for Khartoum on December 8.
Perceived insult
Egypt has previously sought to delay the construction of the dam and its requests to inspect it have been rejected by the Ethiopians, who say Egypt needs to relinquish its power to veto projects on the Nile, which it was also given as part of the 1929 and 1959 treaties.
Under those agreements, Egypt is entitled to 55.5 billion cubic meters a year, most of the Nile's total flow of about 84 billion cubic meters. However, about 85 percent of the river's water originates in the Ethiopian highlands.
A new deal signed in 2010 by other Nile Basin countries, including Ethiopia, allows them to work on river projects without Cairo's prior agreement. Egypt has not signed that deal.
The meeting on Tuesday, the sources told Al Jazeera, was almost called off because Hailemariam, who is also the current chairman of the African Union, was insulted by a request that he should go to Mansour.
The issue was resolved when the leaders ageed to meet halfway - in a corridor.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Ethio Egpian coming Water war - Toledo Blade




A dispute is growing between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River water, even though the countries don’t share a common border. Ethiopia is building a dam that, Egypt says, will draw heavily on water that feeds the Nile.
Egypt draws an estimated 95 percent of its water from the Nile. Ethiopia, a severely underdeveloped country, claims that it has a right to the water and hydroelectric capacity of the Nile.
The dam it is building is scheduled to come online in 2017. Ethiopia and other headwater countries are advancing a new treaty to take the place of a 1959 Nile accord that tends to favor Egypt.
Given its domestic political turmoil, Egypt is ill-equipped to take military action to defend its position. Egypt and Ethiopia are talking; the countries need to find agreement on Nile water-sharing to improve life and maintain peace in the northeast corner of Africa.
It won’t be easy. It never has been.

Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/Editorials/2013/10/25/Water-war-1.html#ETIMCde55DUb4Qm4.99

Thursday, October 24, 2013

drought-plagued africa faces crisis despite major aquifer finds - UPI.com

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The recent discovery of two vast aquifers in northern Kenya and a third in Namibia has given weight to scientists' claims the African continent is sitting on immense underground reservoirs of water.But the scientists also warn that Africa faces more droughts because of climate change and could have 25 percent less water by the end of the century, setting the state for possible water wars.
Egypt and Ethiopia, for instance, are facing off over the long-contested waters of the Nile River because Addis Ababa is building a giant $4.3 billion hydroelectric dam, which will cut the flow to Egypt, whose 84 million people depend on the Nile to survive.
The U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor cautioned the September discovery of the aquifers in the drought-plagued Turkana desert of northwestern Kenya near the borders with Uganda and South Sudan raises "the possibility of cross-border conflicts over water rights in the future."
The Lotikipi Basin Aquifer and the smaller Lodwar Basin Aquifer were among five aquifers located by Radar Technologies International of France, in collaboration with the Kenyan government and the United Nations with funding from Japan.
The East African aquifers were discovered using advanced satellite technology and confirmed by drilling. The size of the other three Kenyan acquifers still has to be determined by drilling.
Lotikipi, roughly the size of Rhode Island, contains an estimated 7.3 trillion cubic feet of water with an annual recharge rate of 42.4 billion cubic feet through rainfall in Kenya and Uganda.
All told, some 8.8 trillion cubic feet of underground water was found, with an expected annual recharge rate of 110 billion cubic feet -- an amount roughly equal to 15 percent of the 741 billion cubic feet of water currently available to Kenya each year.
The Turkana region is populated largely by nomadic tribes, who lack regular access to water. Kenya's economic hubs of Nairobi and the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa are around the Lake Victoria and Athi basins, which hold around 60 percent of the country's water resources.
So there's likely to be considerable debate over how to use the new aquifers in terms of national development resources that Kenyan officials initially claimed could supply the entire country with water for the next 70 years.
But Stratfor observed that with a growing population already surpassing 41 million, Kenya, riven by tribal rivalries and heavily reliant on foreign aid for development, is likely to find the new water resources not enough to "support continued population and economic growth."
It noted: "Competition for the new reserves can be expected. Currently, agriculture dominates water usage, accounting for roughly 80 percent of Kenya's water consumption, but oil and manufacturing will likely vie for the resource. ...
"Sustainability will require improvements in both infrastructure and resource management, neither of which will come easy. ...
"Overuse of water resources by agricultural, municipal or oil sectors would further limit the region's potential for long-term growth," Stratfor observed.
Africa's water woes also have been mitigated by the July 2012 discovery of a major aquifer named Ohangwena II under the Namibia-Angola border on Africa's southwestern coast.
On the Namibian side, the 10,000-year-old aquifer covers an area roughly 43 miles by 25 miles.
Because of climate change over the eons that turned the Sahara into a desert, scientists say many of the aquifers deep under the sands were last filled with water 5,000 years ago.
Project manager Martin Quinger, from the German Federal Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources, says the aquifer could supply northern Namibia "for 400 years" and will help people adjust to climate change.
The 400-year estimate is probably overly optimistic, but scientists writing in the journal Environmental Research Letters recently argued the total volume of water in African aquifers is 100 times the amount found on the surface and probably purer because it's untainted by pollution.
That could be good news for the estimated 300 million people on the planet who are believed to have no access to safe drinking water.
The BBC reported in April 2012 scientists from the British Geological Survey and University College London were able to map Africa's hidden underground water reserves.
Helen Bonsor of BGS estimates there's enough water there to "provide a buffer to climate variability."
Topics: Rhode Island


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2013/10/23/Africa-faces-water-crisis-despite-discovery-of-huge-aquifers/UPI-13121382553986/#ixzz2icxsPVKW

Monday, August 19, 2013

Looming Water War! Horn of Africa:


People's Democracy of India
IN the first half of June, there has been heated rhetoric emanating from the capitals of north eastern African countries. The reason driving the rhetoric is the construction of a huge dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. The multi-billion Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam when completed is going to be among the biggest in the world, competing with the likes of China’s Three Gorges Dam in size. On June 13, Ethiopia’s parliament unanimously ratified a treaty that would no longer give Egypt the lion’s share of the Nile’s waters. Six Nile basin countries had signed the treaty in 2011. “Most of the upstream countries have approved the treaty through their parliaments. We delayed it as a gesture of goodwill to the people of Egypt until a formally elected government was in place”, Ethiopia’s government spokesman told the media. Eleven countries share the basin of the world’s longest river which flows through East Africa before emptying itself in the Mediterranean in northern Egypt.

Ethiopia’s neighbours like Egypt and Sudan whose economy is crucially dependent on the Nile are not happy with what they perceive as Ethiopia’s unilateral moves. Egyptian civilization and culture itself owes its existence to the free flowing waters of the Nile.

Egypt is of the opinion that Addis Ababa’s decision to operationalise the dam will also be an incentive for countries like Uganda and the newly independent Republic of South Sudan to plan similar dams on the Nile before its waters enter Sudan and Egypt. Three quarters of the Nile’s waters to Egypt comes from Ethiopia which is the source of the Blue Nile. The White Nile flows through Uganda and Sudan. The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet at Khartoum and then flows into the Sea through Cairo. Since the 19th century, Egyptian leaders have worked overtime to ensure that the waters from the Nile flow uninterrupted into the cotton and wheat fields of their country. Egypt had briefly invaded Sudan and Ethiopia in the 19th century in futile bids to get complete control over the Nile.

DISTRIBUTION GOVERNED BY TWO CONVENTIONS
The distribution of the Nile’s waters was until recently governed by two conventions. The first was signed in 1929 between Egypt and Britain. Britain was the colonial power that controlled or had influence over all the states through which the Nile flowed. Under this agreement, Egypt was given veto powers over projects on the Nile in other countries. The second was the 1959 agreement signed with Sudan, Egypt was allotted 55.5 billion cubic meters of water from the Nile with Sudan taking 18.5 billion. Ethiopia was excluded from the agreement. Ethiopia and other upstream countries like Kenya and Tanzania were extremely unhappy with the agreement.

The Aswan Dam along with the system of canals that have been built to harness the Nile water had done wonders for Egyptian economy. Unlike most of its neighbours, the country is entirely dependent on the Nile water. The country only receives scattered rains and has no forests or savannah. Egyptians feel that the supply to the dam will be adversely affected because of the Ethiopian project and will be a body blow to their already beleaguered economy. The new Aswan Dam was financed and built by the Soviet Union after the US had backed out of its commitment due to the politics of the Cold War era.

The Ethiopians too wanted to build a dam on the Nile since the latter half of the last century but their country was ravaged by war and political instability. Besides, no country was willing to finance the construction of a huge dam in a country impoverished by cycles of drought and war. 70 per cent of Ethiopians have no access to electricity. Now things are changing. The Chinese, who have had a history of engagement with the African continent also now, have the wherewithal to finance gargantuan projects. Chinese companies are now involved in a big way in the construction of the Dam in the Ethiopian highlands though the contract for the building of the dam is being handled by an Italian company. The Chinese government has provided a $1 billion loan for the project. The projected cost of the dam is $4.1 billion. Indian, Saudi Arabian and Qatari companies have also invested in the ambitious Ethiopian project.

Once completed, the dam is projected to generate 6000 megawatts, making Ethiopia the biggest producer of electricity on the continent. It will be in a position to export power to its energy starved neighbours including Egypt. The Ethiopian government has been stressing that the water in the dam will only be used to produce electricity and will not be used for irrigation purposes. In the last week of May, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn told his Egyptian counterpart that the course of the Nile’s was only being temporarily diverted to facilitate the construction of the dam

Weeks before the military takeover, Egyptian law makers, cutting across party lines, were caught off-guard on television threatening dire consequences for the Ethiopians if the quantum of water for countries downstream is disrupted. They were heard urging the government to use the Egyptian air force and special army units to abort the construction of the dam. The politicians were not aware that their meeting was being broadcast live on television. In the second week of June, the former Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi in a nationwide address vowed to safeguard the nation’s water security at all costs. “As President of the Republic, I confirm to you that all options are open. If Egypt is the Nile’s gift, then the Nile is a gift to Egypt–if it diminishes by one drop, then our blood is the alternative”, he said.

The Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman was quick to retort that no threat will stop the ongoing construction of the dam and that his country would not be “intimidated by the psychological threats” from Cairo. The Ethiopian prime minister described the Egyptian threats as “warmongering” meant to distract the Egyptian public from their political and economic problems. The former Ethiopian strongman, Meles Zenawi, had accused Egypt shortly before his death, of assisting rebel groups in destabilising his country.

SCRAMBLE FOR WATER
Many commentators have for long been predicting that the 21st century will soon witness “water wars” as nations scramble to make optimum use of the diminishing commodity to feed their growing populations and keep the economy ticking. However, nobody is predicting a military conflict in the Horn of Africa or other parts of Africa over the issue anytime in the near future, despite the overheated rhetoric. Most observers believe that Egypt is in no position to match its words with deeds. Despite its size and military strength, Egypt has been steadily losing its influence in the region. Ethiopia which also has a big population and a strong army has emerged as the West’s strongest partner in the region.

Egypt’s relations with Sudan have been frosty since the overthrow of the civilian government in the late eighties and the coming to power of a military government in Khartoum that was strongly influenced by Islamist ideology. Relations with Khartoum have considerably improved since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak and the coming to power of a government led by the Muslim Brothers. But the newly established Republic of South Sudan has no love lost for Cairo. Egypt, like many other African countries, was against the break up of Sudan and the creation of a new country. South Sudan is supporting Ethiopia on the Nile waters issue and has also announced that it is also planning to construct dams on the White Nile that flows through its territory. South Sudan has stopped worked on the Jonglei Canal financed by Egypt where 77 per cent of the work has already been completed. The canal if completed would have saved nine billion square meters of Nile water from being wasted.


The construction work on the Great Renaissance Dam started two months after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. Wikileaks cables have revealed that in 2010, Egyptian officials were dissuaded by the US and Sudanese officials from making plans to bomb the infrastructure being readied for the construction of the dam. Sudan had warned that such a move would be counterproductive and Washington would anyway not have tolerated an attack on its most trusted ally in the Horn of Africa. Geo-political equations have changed along with the realisation that the Nile is no longer exclusive for Egypt and it is an African River whose bountiful resources have to be shared.

The former Egyptian President, Morsi, had said that he “understood” the Ethiopia’s need to harness its water resources. He had called for a “political solution” to the issue while describing Ethiopia as a “friendly state”. The new people in power in Cairo may take a different view. Figures in the Egyptian security set up and the opposition had criticised Morsi for being too soft on the Ethiopian government. The government in Addis Ababa continues to claim that “no appreciable harm” will accrue to downstream states as a result of the dam project. The Egyptian government has concluded that this is not the case and that the construction of the dam will have “negative consequences”. Egyptian experts have calculated that the country will lose around 20 per cent of its Nile water supply for the next three to five years. Cairo is awaiting the report by a Tripartite Nile Basin Committee comprising of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, to determine its next course of action.
Horn of Africa: Looming Water War!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Water will cost more than oil -Saudi Gazette -

Abed Khazendar
Al-Riyadh


Water will be more expensive than oil in the near future. If in the past wars were started because of oil, today they will start because of water.

There are already many examples of that, the most recent being the rising tension between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile River. Israel is involved in this and helping Ethiopia to build a dam. This is what is happening outside our border.

Now let us look at what is happening inside our borders. Water in Saudi Arabia is very scarce yet we are among the top nations when it comes to consuming water.

According to a recent report in a Saudi local daily, Saudi Arabia for the first time ever consumed 8 million cubic meters of water in one day. This is equal to 800,000 water tanks of 10 tons load. The report stated that the individual consumption of water reached 265 liters, which is double the consumption of an individual living in the European Union.

If we are going to continue the way we are with the annual increase of population and do not use solar power to desalinate water, then we will not have any oil to export. We have to remember that 50 years ago, we had underground water reserves enough to last us for 250 years. Through mismanagement and misuse, we consumed it in growing wheat and other failed ventures. I hope that the future generation will not blame us for our misuse of this precious resource.

Monday, July 1, 2013

Egyptian Foreign ministry official heads to Ethiopia to resume dam talks - Daily News Egypt

An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited Ethiopia on Sunday to meet with Ethiopian officials regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). (AFP File Photo)
An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited Ethiopia on Sunday to meet with Ethiopian officials regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
(AFP File Photo)
An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited Ethiopia on Sunday to meet with Ethiopian officials regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs Ali El Hefny arrived in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to complete talks about the repercussions of building the GERD and bilateral relations, according to state-owned news agency Al-Ahram.
Egypt and Ethiopia began talks last week when an Ethiopian delegation came to Egypt. The talks began following Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Kamel Amr’svisit to Ethiopia in June to discuss the implementation of the findings of the International Panel of Experts’ report on the GERD.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, speaking on Saturday, called on the Egyptian government to refrain from taking provocative action and emphasised the need for “civilised” negotiations, reported Al-Ahram.
Desaglen asserted that Egypt’s position is based upon agreements in 1929 and 1959, which were finalised “without the consent of Upper Nile states.” These agreements allocate Egypt the majority of the Nile waters.
Ethiopia began diverting water from the Blue Nile, a tributary of the Nile at the end of May. This sparked concerns in Egypt that the GERD would negatively affect Egypt’s water share.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

“… ካላበዱ በቀር …” - ኃይለማርያም ደሣለኝ ስለግብፅ መሪዎች

የኅዳሴ ግድብ ሥፍራየኅዳሴ ግድብ ሥፍራ

“… ካላበዱ በቀር …” - ኃይለማርያም ደሣለኝ ስለግብፅ መሪዎች

ከዕለት ወደ ዕለት በኢትዮጵያና በግብፅ መካከል የዲፕሎማሲ መካረርን እያስከተለ በመጣው በግዙፉ የኅዳሴ ግድብ ግንባታ ጉዳይ ላይ ለመነጋገር የግብፅ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትር ሞሐመድ ካመል አምር የፊታችን ዕሁድ አዲስ አበባ እንደሚገቡ ተነገረ፡፡

ኢትዮጵያና ግብፅ በአፍሪካዊነት መንፈስ ወደ ንግግር እንዲገቡ የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ሊቀመንበር ዶ/ር ንኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ ዙማ አሳሰቡ፡፡

ኅዳሴ ግድብ በግንባታ ላይኅዳሴ ግድብ በግንባታ ላይ
ግብፅ የውኃ ጥቅሜን ይጎዳል የምትለው በአፍሪካ ግዙፉ የኃይድሮ ኤሌክትሪክ ኃይል ማመንጫ ይሆናል የተባለው ኅዳሴ ግድብ ግንባታ በምንም ሁኔታ እንደማይቆም የኢትዮጵያ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር ትናንት ባወጣው መግለጫ አመልክቶ እንደነበር ይታወሣል፡፡

ሞሐመድ ሞርሲ - የግብፅ ፕሬዚዳንትሞሐመድ ሞርሲ - የግብፅ ፕሬዚዳንት
“ግብፅ ጦርነት አትፈልግም፤ ነገር ግን ሁሉም አማራጮች ጠረጴዛ ላይ ናቸው” ሲሉ የግብፅ ፕሬዚዳንት ሞሐመድ ሞርሲ ከትናንት በስተያ ከተናገሩ ወዲህ በሁለቱ ሃገሮች መካከል ያሉት ሁኔታዎች የተካረሩ እንደሚመስሉ ዘገባዎቹ እየጠቆሙ ነው፡፡

በቻይና ለሚያደርጉት ጉብኝት ዛሬ ከአዲስ አበባ የተነሡት የኢትዮጵያ ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር በጉዟቸው ወቅት አብሯቸው ለሚገኝ የኢትዮጵያ ቴሌቪዥን ጋዜጠኛ በሰጡት ለግብፁ ፕሬዚዳንት ሃሣብ መልስ የሚሰጡ ሃሣብ ሲናገሩ “ሁሉም አማራጮች ጠረጴዛ ላይ ናቸው ሲሉ ጦርነትንም ያካትታል ማለታቸው ነው፡፡ ካላበዱ በስተቀር ይህንን አማራጭ ይወስዳሉ ብለን አናምንም፡፡” ብለዋል፡፡

የኢትዮጵያው ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ኃይለማርያም ደሣለኝም ይህንኑ የኅዳሴ ግድብ ግንባታና በዙሪያውም የተነሣውን የኢትዮ-ግብፅ ውዝግብ አስመልክቶ ዛሬ ተናግረዋል፡፡

የግብፁን የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትር የመጭው ዕሁድ የአዲስ አበባ ጉዞ አስመልክቶ የኢትዮጵያ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር ቃል አቀባይ አምባሣደር ዲና ሙፍቲ በሰጡት መግለጫ “እኛ ሁል ጊዜ በመነጋገር እንደምናምን ስንገልፅ ቆይተናል፤ ይህ ጉብኝትም እኛ የምንፈልገው ነው” ብለዋል፡፡ “ይሁን እንጂ - አሉ ዲና ሙፍቲ ጠንከር ባሉ ቃላት አክለው - የግድቡን ሥራ የማዘግየት ወይም የማቆም አንዳችም ሃሣብ አናስተናግድም፡፡”

ን'ኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ-ዙማ - የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ሊቀመንበር፡፡ን'ኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ-ዙማ - የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ሊቀመንበር፡፡
በሌላ በኩል ደግሞ ኢትዮጵያና ግብፅ ውዝግቡን ለመፍታት ወደ ንግግር እንዲገቡ የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ጠይቋል፡፡

የሕብረቱ ሊቀመንበር ንኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ ዙማ ዛሬ ለጋዜጠኞች በሰጡት መግለጫ “በአዲስ አስተሳሰብ ስሜትና መንፈስ ሁሉም ወገኖች አሸናፊ የሚሆኑበትን ግልፅ ንግግር መጀመር አስፈላጊ ነው፡፡ በቅኝ አገዛዝ ኃይሎች ግንዛቤና አካሄድ ሣይሆን በመላ-አፍሪካዊነትና በአፍሪካ ኅዳሴ ስሜትና መንፈስ ነው ንግግሮቹ መካሄድ ያለባቸው” ብለዋል፡፡

የቀድሞ የግብፅ አስተዳደሮች የአባይን ውኃ ሊነካ የሚችል ማንኛውንም ግድብ በወታደራዊ ኃይል የመምታት የመጠባበቂያ ዕቅድ ይዘው መኖራቸው ይታወቃል፡

“… ካላበዱ በቀር …” - ኃይለማርያም ደሣለኝ ስለግብፅ መሪዎች

የኅዳሴ ግድብ ሥፍራየኅዳሴ ግድብ ሥፍራ

“… ካላበዱ በቀር …” - ኃይለማርያም ደሣለኝ ስለግብፅ መሪዎች

ከዕለት ወደ ዕለት በኢትዮጵያና በግብፅ መካከል የዲፕሎማሲ መካረርን እያስከተለ በመጣው በግዙፉ የኅዳሴ ግድብ ግንባታ ጉዳይ ላይ ለመነጋገር የግብፅ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትር ሞሐመድ ካመል አምር የፊታችን ዕሁድ አዲስ አበባ እንደሚገቡ ተነገረ፡፡

ኢትዮጵያና ግብፅ በአፍሪካዊነት መንፈስ ወደ ንግግር እንዲገቡ የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ሊቀመንበር ዶ/ር ንኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ ዙማ አሳሰቡ፡፡

ኅዳሴ ግድብ በግንባታ ላይኅዳሴ ግድብ በግንባታ ላይ
ግብፅ የውኃ ጥቅሜን ይጎዳል የምትለው በአፍሪካ ግዙፉ የኃይድሮ ኤሌክትሪክ ኃይል ማመንጫ ይሆናል የተባለው ኅዳሴ ግድብ ግንባታ በምንም ሁኔታ እንደማይቆም የኢትዮጵያ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር ትናንት ባወጣው መግለጫ አመልክቶ እንደነበር ይታወሣል፡፡

ሞሐመድ ሞርሲ - የግብፅ ፕሬዚዳንትሞሐመድ ሞርሲ - የግብፅ ፕሬዚዳንት
“ግብፅ ጦርነት አትፈልግም፤ ነገር ግን ሁሉም አማራጮች ጠረጴዛ ላይ ናቸው” ሲሉ የግብፅ ፕሬዚዳንት ሞሐመድ ሞርሲ ከትናንት በስተያ ከተናገሩ ወዲህ በሁለቱ ሃገሮች መካከል ያሉት ሁኔታዎች የተካረሩ እንደሚመስሉ ዘገባዎቹ እየጠቆሙ ነው፡፡

በቻይና ለሚያደርጉት ጉብኝት ዛሬ ከአዲስ አበባ የተነሡት የኢትዮጵያ ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር በጉዟቸው ወቅት አብሯቸው ለሚገኝ የኢትዮጵያ ቴሌቪዥን ጋዜጠኛ በሰጡት ለግብፁ ፕሬዚዳንት ሃሣብ መልስ የሚሰጡ ሃሣብ ሲናገሩ “ሁሉም አማራጮች ጠረጴዛ ላይ ናቸው ሲሉ ጦርነትንም ያካትታል ማለታቸው ነው፡፡ ካላበዱ በስተቀር ይህንን አማራጭ ይወስዳሉ ብለን አናምንም፡፡” ብለዋል፡፡

የኢትዮጵያው ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ኃይለማርያም ደሣለኝም ይህንኑ የኅዳሴ ግድብ ግንባታና በዙሪያውም የተነሣውን የኢትዮ-ግብፅ ውዝግብ አስመልክቶ ዛሬ ተናግረዋል፡፡

የግብፁን የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትር የመጭው ዕሁድ የአዲስ አበባ ጉዞ አስመልክቶ የኢትዮጵያ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር ቃል አቀባይ አምባሣደር ዲና ሙፍቲ በሰጡት መግለጫ “እኛ ሁል ጊዜ በመነጋገር እንደምናምን ስንገልፅ ቆይተናል፤ ይህ ጉብኝትም እኛ የምንፈልገው ነው” ብለዋል፡፡ “ይሁን እንጂ - አሉ ዲና ሙፍቲ ጠንከር ባሉ ቃላት አክለው - የግድቡን ሥራ የማዘግየት ወይም የማቆም አንዳችም ሃሣብ አናስተናግድም፡፡”

ን'ኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ-ዙማ - የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ሊቀመንበር፡፡ን'ኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ-ዙማ - የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ሊቀመንበር፡፡
በሌላ በኩል ደግሞ ኢትዮጵያና ግብፅ ውዝግቡን ለመፍታት ወደ ንግግር እንዲገቡ የአፍሪካ ሕብረት ጠይቋል፡፡

የሕብረቱ ሊቀመንበር ንኮሣዛና ድላሚኒ ዙማ ዛሬ ለጋዜጠኞች በሰጡት መግለጫ “በአዲስ አስተሳሰብ ስሜትና መንፈስ ሁሉም ወገኖች አሸናፊ የሚሆኑበትን ግልፅ ንግግር መጀመር አስፈላጊ ነው፡፡ በቅኝ አገዛዝ ኃይሎች ግንዛቤና አካሄድ ሣይሆን በመላ-አፍሪካዊነትና በአፍሪካ ኅዳሴ ስሜትና መንፈስ ነው ንግግሮቹ መካሄድ ያለባቸው” ብለዋል፡፡

የቀድሞ የግብፅ አስተዳደሮች የአባይን ውኃ ሊነካ የሚችል ማንኛውንም ግድብ በወታደራዊ ኃይል የመምታት የመጠባበቂያ ዕቅድ ይዘው መኖራቸው ይታወቃል፡

Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over Nile dam ‘not yet a military one’ — RT News

The Blue Nile in Guba, Ethiopia, during its diversion ceremony (AFP Photo)
The Blue Nile in Guba, Ethiopia, during its diversion ceremony (AFP Photo)
Egypt’s armed forces are refraining from military threats over a River Nile dam dispute, with a spokesperson for the general staff declaring that it “is not a military issue at this stage,” following some heated exchanges between the two countries.
Tensions have heightened over a giant dam on the Nile, termed the “Great Renaissance Dam” by Ethiopia. Egypt fears that the new hydroelectric plant will deplete its vital water resources.

“It's too early to involve the army in this problem at the moment,” Ahmed Mohamed Ali told Reuters.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said earlier on Monday that he did not want war but would keep “all options open,” inciting a response from Ethiopia.

The following day, Ethiopia's foreign ministry spokesman, Dina Mufti, dismissed Egypt’s “psychological warfare,” saying that the dam’s construction wouldn’t be halted “even for seconds.”

Last week, some Egyptian politicians were recorded discussing potential air strikes or the possibility of offering support to Ethiopian rebels.

Egypt’s foreign minister will travel to Ethiopia on Sunday to discuss the subject of the dam further, despite Ethiopia’s declaration that it would not be accepting any proposals to temporarily halt construction.

The rights of priority to the Nile’s water supply are backed by colonial-era treaties, according to Egypt. The river provides the majority of the county’s 84 million residents with water. Ethiopia states that this attitude is outdated and that it cannot stay under-provided for.

It would be important to just have discussions that are open, that look at how we can have a win-win situation in a new context, not in the context of the colonial powers, but in the context of pan-Africanism and African renaissance,” the African Union's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma stated in a press conference.