By Maher Ahmed - Reporter
Uganda, 14 May 2025 Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni held talks in Entebbe on Wednesday on the Nile water dispute, regional security and expanding bilateral cooperation.
The meeting took place at the Ugandan presidential palace following Sisi’s visit to Uganda, according to a statement from Egypt’s presidency.
Sisi emphasized Egypt’s interest in strengthening economic ties with Uganda through increased trade, investment cooperation and broader regional coordination.
The leaders also discussed developments in Sudan, Libya and the Palestinian territories, stressing the importance of coordinated African positions on regional crises.
On the Nile issue, the two sides called for greater cooperation among Nile Basin countries as disagreements continue over the legal framework governing the river’s waters.
The dispute centers largely on the Entebbe Agreement signed in 2010 by several upstream Nile Basin countries seeking to revise water-sharing arrangements along the river.
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Egypt and Sudan oppose parts of the agreement, arguing that it does not recognize historical treaties governing Nile water allocations.
Under earlier agreements, Egypt gets 55.5 billion cubic meters of Nile water annually while Sudan gets 18.5 billion cubic meters, according to Egyptian and Sudanese positions.
Cairo and Khartoum have also maintained that earlier arrangements granted them the right to object to projects that could affect downstream water flows.
Tensions over Nile water management have intensified in recent years alongside disputes involving Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and growing calls among upstream countries for revised water-sharing arrangements.
Uganda is among the Nile Basin countries supporting broader regional cooperation and revised management structures for the river system shared by 11 African countries.