scholarly journals The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement the Beginning of the End of Egyptian Hydro-Political Hegemony

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abadir M. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Nile Basin ◽  
Framework Agreement

Land-Water-Security Nexus: Changing Geopolitics in the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
David Ross Olanya
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Water Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Nile Basin ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
Joint Coordination ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Land Water

This article extends the debate on the shift in water security governance in the Nile Basin countries. Water as an object of analysis was previously embedded in a depoliticized governance framework now faces politicization in the context of food, energy and climate change. In considering land-water-security nexus, population and climate variations drive Middle East and North Africa (mena) policies for the return of the state primacy in water governance. As Egypt and Sudan maintain their dynamics of hegemony in Nile Basin countries, Gulf States however are deploying proxy water diplomacy through investment in agricultural farmlands in Nile Basin countries. Increasing number of actors alter water access and security across formal and informal domains. The Nile Basin Cooperative Agreement (cfa) remains contested between upstream and downstream riparian states as being uncoordinated water management and development policies. Incorporating market and local users beyond the state gets politicized in securing water security. In view of this, this article hence suggests that power relations are not static, but subject to the changing circumstances. Egypt’s water security would be more sustainable when it engages cfa countries in a joint coordination and development projects.

scholarly journals Transboundary Water Conflicts as Postcolonial Legacy (the Case of Nile Basin)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
Adam Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah ◽  
Celia Dyduck ◽  
Taha Y. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Nile Delta ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Nile Basin ◽  
Transboundary Water ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
North East ◽  
Nile Basin Initiative ◽  
The One ◽  
Port Said

It is not shortage or lack of water that leads to conflict but the way how water is governed and managed. It is said that water will be, much more than oil, the major geopolitical issue of the 21st century. Although it is difficult to demonstrate this, it is clear that the increasing scarcity of the resource, on the one hand, and the configuration of its availability, on the other, are conflict-generating. In the particular case of the African continent, the large catchment basins of the Nile, Niger and Chad, shared by many states of unequal power, are the scene of inefficient hydro-diplomacy. Indeed, north to south, the Nile Delta is 161 km long and covers the coastline of Egypt from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east. Egypt with 100 mln population is de facto the principal hydro-hegemon state in the Nile basin. Nevertheless, a couple of riparian states, as Ethiopia (105 mln population), have taken measures in order to challenge this status quo: the signature and launching of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), the signature of Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA), the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the signing of the Declaration of Principles Agreement. The article attempts to analyse the urgency of the problem of water resources allocation in Africa with particular focus to the Nile basin and the complexity of agreements regulating the issue dating back to the colonial era. The study also emphasizes the difficulties bilateral and multilateral aids faced while trying to solve a conflict. As Nile for many states is not just a source of water, it is the host of a fragile ecosystem, essential for maintaining the environmental and ecological balance of North-East Africa.

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