The Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Demki Mokinen, called on the members of the UN Security Council to urge Egypt and Sudan to return to the tripartite negotiations on the Renaissance Dam, and to respect the path led by the African Union, while Egypt accused Ethiopia of fallacy and adopting a de facto policy.

In a letter to the current president of the council, the Ethiopian official said that this path had the full support of the Security Council on the basis of the principles of integration, to find African solutions to African problems.

Mokenan accused Egypt and Sudan of not negotiating in good faith, and were not prepared to make the necessary concessions to reach a win-win outcome for both sides.

He added that the two countries chose to "thwart" the negotiations and "internationalize" the issue to exert undue pressure on Ethiopia, as he put it.

For its part, the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation accused Ethiopia of presenting great inaccuracies regarding the drainage of the Nile River and the second filling of the Renaissance Dam.

The Egyptian Ministry considered that "the unilateral Ethiopian measures would cause harm to the two downstream countries."

She also emphasized that the Ethiopian side's initiation of the mobilization process "is a continuation of the approach taken to impose a fait accompli policy."

African tour

In what appears to be an Egyptian attempt to explain his country's position to some African parties;

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry started an African tour from Kenya, delivering a message from the Egyptian President to his Kenyan counterpart.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that the message included Cairo's position on the Renaissance Dam negotiations, based on the outcomes of the Kinshasa meetings early this month.

After Kenya, the Egyptian Foreign Minister moved to Moroni, the capital of the Comoros, where he met his Comorian counterpart, Zaheer Zul Kamal.

The Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maryam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, said earlier that her country's firm position is the need to reach a binding agreement before the second filling of the Renaissance Dam, and Khartoum informed the UN Security Council about the complications that the dam negotiations are going through.

While Ethiopia insists on a second filling of the Renaissance Dam even if it does not reach a tripartite agreement on the dam with Egypt and Sudan, Cairo and Khartoum adhere to first reaching an agreement on filling and operating that preserves their water facilities, and ensures the continued flow of their annual share of the Nile water, amounting to 55.5 billion cubic meters, And 18.5 billion cubic meters, respectively.

For 10 years, the three countries have been holding stalled negotiations, and the African Union has sponsored them for months.