Speaking at a meeting marking the day at the ECA, President Mulatu Teshome said that Nile riparian countries need to cooperate for the equitable utilization of the waters of the Nile for the prosperity of their peoples.<\/p>\n

The economic activity in the sub-region is based on backward rain-fed agriculture which made it extremely difficult to meet the basic needs of the population, he said.<\/p>\n

He also noted that the effects of climate change had further complicated the livelihood of the population which is still living in abject poverty.<\/p>\n

Mulatu said that riparian countries have no other choice except to effectively cooperate for the equitable utilization of the resource.<\/p>\n

Minister of Water, Irrigation and Electricity, Dr Engineer Seleshi Bekele said more than ever, Nile basin countries need to scale up their cooperation at a better stage.<\/p>\n

The Minister requested for further promoting and strengthening of the objectives of the Nile Basin Initiative.<\/p>\n

Sudanese Minister of Water Resources and the Egyptian resident ambassador who were present on the occasion expressed their readiness to cooperate with Nile Basin countries on the issues of the equitable utilization of the resources of the Nile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

East African countries gathered on 22 February in Addis Ababa to celebrate the Nile Day 2018 under the theme of “The Nile: Shared River, Collective Action.”\u00a0The day is a commemoration of the establishment of the unprecedented Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) on February 22, 1999. Speaking at a meeting marking the day at the ECA, President …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-embassy-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nile-Basin-Initiative-e1519380239526.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10387,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions\/10387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}