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Africa still bound by 1929 treaty on use of Nile waters

River Nile. [Courtesy]

Kenyan and Ugandan fishermen may continue squabbling about the fish in Migingo Island but they will never own the waters. The real owner of these waters as well as that of Lakes Victoria Albert and Edward do not belong to Yoweri Museveni either. The landlord is thousands of kilometers away, near Sinai Desert in Egypt, the land of pharaohs.

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