Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi called on Ethiopia no to compromise Egypt's share of Nile water saying "all options are possible, while assuring that cooperation is better than fighting. "I say to our Ethiopian brothers, [we] should not get to a point where you infringe upon a drop of Egypt's water because all options are open […] our cooperation is better … to build with each other is better than to disagree and tussle," El-Sisi said during inauguration of a national project in Cairo on Wednesday. The remarks came one day after the collapse of the Kinshasa-hosted talks, which aimed in vain to revive the deadlocked negations on the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GER). It also comes after Ethiopia announced it will move forward with the second-year filling of the controversial dam in July. The president said Egypt and Sudan, the third party of the dispute, will coordinate more in the decade-long issue as per the international law related to the international river. "We declare to the world the justice of our cause within the framework of international law and international norms related to the international rivers," he stressed. More to follow
