Museveni Warned Kiir Against Taking side in Ethiopian-Egyptian Dam Dispute in June – official
JUBA – A senior South Sudan foreign ministry
official is telling Sudans Post that Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
in June warned President Salva Kiir against taking side in the
Egyptian-Ethiopian dam dispute after reports unfolded of South Sudan government
giving a piece of land to Egyptian military in Pagak, a Maiwut village
bordering eastern Ethiopia where Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), whose
terms of implementation are opposition by Egypt, is located.
A few days earlier,
before the Museveni warning, rumors circulated on the local media as well as
some large international outlets including Al Jazeera alleging that South Sudan
government had agreed to an Egyptian request for military base in the east of
the country for a then possible military confrontation against E...
