Libya seeks share of Nile resources

August 6, 2007 (KAMPALA) — Libya is seeking to share on the River Nile water and its resources. Libya is not among the Nile Basin countries. The basin comprises Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

“The cooperation is beneficial to all of us and has attracted other countries outside the basin such as Libya, even though the Council of Ministers of the Nile Basin countries felt that the time is not appropriate yet for Libya to join,” Gordon Mumbo told journalists at a sub-regional media workshop in Jinja this week.

Mumbo is the Regional Project Manager for Confidence Building and Stakeholder Involvement under the Nile Basin Initiative. Mr Mumbo said River Nile has been affected by climate changes and environmental degradation.

(The Monitor)