{{South Sudan is set to sign an agreement that would replace a colonial-era law that gave most of the River Nile’s waters to Egypt and Sudan, local media have reported.}}
The signing of the Cooperative Framework Agreement of the Nile Basin countries, sometimes known as the Entebbe agreement, is likely to be signed and ratified at the Nile Water Summit in Juba on Thursday.
Paul Mayom Akec, South Sudan’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources, said earlier in the week that the signing of the agreement was “inevitable”.
“The process of joining the agreement has started at all levels of the state apparatus in South Sudan,” Akec stated in a press conference on Wednesday.
Akec said South Sudan would implement the agreement as soon as parliament ratifies it.
If signed, South Sudan will be the seventh riparian country to sign the agreement on sharing the Nile waters.
Six other countries have already signed the agreement: Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Burundi.
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