3-party meeting fails over Ethiopian dam on Nile

KINSHASA－Egypt and Sudan said on Tuesday the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have ended with no progress.

Delegations from the three nations met in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a bid to break a deadlock in talks over a project Ethiopia says is key to its economic development and power generation.

Ethiopia, an upstream Nile basin country, started building the dam in 2011. Egypt fears the dam will imperil its supplies of Nile water, while Sudan is concerned about the dam's safety and water flows through its own dams and water stations.