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New Nile treaty offers win-win deal

Until the River Nile riparian states began negotiating a new treaty with Egypt and Sudan that were bestowed the exclusive rights to harness the water by the British colonial government, the cause of endemic food insecurity was scarcely understood.

The obstructionist 1929 Nile Treaty outlawed damning the water for irrigation, power generation and commercial livestock development.

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