Description
Book SynopsisRecounts the history of the dispute over the Nile between Egypt and Ethiopia, and suggests a way forward, based on co-operation and development.
Trade Review'A brilliant book by one of the best observers of the complex politics of the Horn of Africa' -- Professor Fantu Cheru, Senior Research Fellow, Nordic Africa Institute
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
1. Introduction and Overview
2. The Upstream States Reject Egyptian Control of the Nile Waters: The Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA)
3. Nile Waters, Drought, Poverty and Conflict Risk
4. Who Needs the Nile Waters: One River, Eleven Countries
5. Who Owns the Nile Waters: The Legal Context
6. Egypt and the Nile: Cairo’s Quest for Hegemony
7. The Nile Basin Initiative: Efforts at Cooperation in the Nile Basin
8. The Imperative of Equitable Allocation of the Nile Waters
9. Regional Inequity in Water Resource Development and Conflict Risk
10. Nile Basin Initiative to Cooperative Framework Agreement
11. After the CFA, What has Changed?
12. Dimensions of the Threat of Conflict: Egypt’s military might
13. Egypt’s Nile Waters War: Could it Ever Become Real?
14. The Way Forward
15. Conclusions
Notes
References
Index
