Ethiopia, Uganda call for expedited ratification of CFA

Addis Ababa, August 20, 2022 (FBC) – Ethiopia and Uganda made a call to the initiative’s members to expedite the ratification of the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA). 

The Nile Basin countries’ one-day ministerial meeting concluded in Dar eSalam, Tanzania.  The meeting was attended by Habtamu Itefa, Minister of Water and Energy, and Shibru Mamo, Ethiopia’s Ambassador in Tanzania. 

Ministers of both countries have called for the initiative’s members to expedite the ratification of the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA), according to Ambassador Shibru.

The NBI is a regional intergovernmental partnership of ten countries: Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi, the DRC, and Egypt, as per Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Ethiopia.