Egypt and the possibility of encircling Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Egyptian rejection of the agreement stems from several considerations, some of which may be related to the failure of the Renaissance Dam negotiations, and attributing this to the Ethiopian policy of procrastination in the negotiation process. The rivers of the Ethiopian plateau, alone constitute 60% of the total water coming to Egypt out of a total of 85% of water coming from the plateau.