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The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement: a peacefully unfolding African spring?
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In the last half-century, there have been attempts at co-existence between Egypt and Sudan on the one hand and the Nile upper riparians on the other hand as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Disputes between Egypt and Sudan on the one hand and the Nile upper riparians on the other hand have dominated the Nile Basin for the last half-century. Nevertheless, there have been attempts at co...read more
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Comparing impacts of climate change on streamflow in four large African river basins
Valentin Aich,Stefan Liersch,Tobias Vetter,Shaochun Huang,J. Tecklenburg,Peter Hoffmann,Hagen Koch,S. Fournet,Valentina Krysanova,Eva Nora Müller,Fred F. Hattermann +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare impacts of climate change on streamflow in four large representative African river basins: the Niger, the Upper Blue Nile, the Oubangui and the Limpopo.
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Transboundary governance of the Nile River Basin: Past, present and future
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of transboundary governance of the Nile River Basin is presented, which discusses the approaches to and drivers of the basin's institutional design, and concludes with a discussion on the challenges to effective trans- boundary governance in the region moving forward.
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: the road to the Declaration of Principles and the Khartoum Document.
TL;DR: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as discussed by the authors presented major challenges to the notion of existing rights and uses of the Nile waters asserted by Egypt and Sudan, and Ethiopia succeeded in making the GERD a reality, bolstered four years later, in 2015, by the signature by the three countries of two instruments: the Declaration of Principles and the Khartoum Document.
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The future of the Nile: climate change, land use, infrastructure management, and treaty negotiations in a transboundary river basin
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the multidisciplinary literature on the Nile to understand more about the outlook for this geopolitically significant river basin and highlighted contemporary land use changes that could impact flows within the Nile Basin.
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Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Implications for Downstream Riparian Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, various filling policies and future climate states are simultaneously explored through a linked set of models (rainfall-runoff, routing, and hydropower) to infer potential streamflow reductions near Sudan's Gezira Scheme, one of the largest irrigated areas in the world, and at Lake N...
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The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective Action
TL;DR: Waterbury as mentioned in this paper applies collective action theory and international relations theory to the challenges of the ten Nile nations and concludes that if there is to be a solution to the dilemmas of the Nile Basin countries, it must be based upon contractual understandings, brokered by third-party funders, and based on the national interests of each basin state.
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Ethiopia, the Sudan, and Egypt: The Nile River Dispute
TL;DR: The White Nile and the Blue Nile provide 86% and 14% of the waters of the Nile, respectively as mentioned in this paper, while the contribution from the Equatorial Lakes region is only 14 percent.
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The law of international watercourses
TL;DR: The United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (UNCLWCL) as mentioned in this paper provides a legal framework for the non-navigational use of international watercourses.
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Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers:A Legal Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze five major bilateral treaty regimes on the South Asian subcontinent: between India and Bangladesh for the Ganges River, Between India and Nepal for the Kosi, Gandaki, and Mahakali rivers, and Between Pakistan and India for the Indus River.
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The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement Negotiations and the Adoption of a ‘Water Security’ Paradigm: Flight into Obscurity or a Logical Cul-de-sac?
TL;DR: The NBI has provided a convenient forum for the negotiation of a Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) to set up a permanent, inclusive legal and institutional framework as discussed by the authors, however, negotiations of the CFA has faced a serious impasse as a result of the introduction of the concept of water security.
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