Food and agricultural economics
2026-04-26
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Egypt 2026: Nile Water Security after GERD Completion, the Entebbe Pivot, and the Food Import Question
Ethiopia completed the fifth GERD filling in August 2024 and declared the project finished in September. With Burundi's October 2024 ratification of the Cooperative Framework Agreement, the legal and hydrological status quo behind Egypt's Nile rights is, in practice, gone.
Egypt's Nile question has shifted from a negotiation problem to an operating problem. GERD was declared complete by Ethiopia on 3 September 2024 after the fifth reservoir filling, with four of thirteen turbines online by April 2026 toward a 6.45 GW installed capacity. African Union mediation collapsed in late 2023. The Cooperative Framewo...