EL Etos UT: Egypt Threatens Ethiopia with War over Nile Dam

(FNA)- Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi threatened neighboring Ethiopia with potential war over a contested dam that the latter country has been building on the Nile River, affecting a major Egyptian water source.

“I am telling our brothers in Ethiopia, let’s not reach the point where you touch a drop of Egypt’s water, because all options are open,” Sisi said on Wednesday, presstv reported.

But he also cautioned that the region had already “witnessed the cost of any confrontation”, referring to past regional conflicts.

The remarks came after the latest round of three-way talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ended without result in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s capital, Kinshasa, on Tuesday...