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Have the Nile, we’ll keep the trees

The person who publicly fired the first salvo was Martha Karua.

As Water minister, she announced in her no-nonsense manner that there was something terribly twisted about Egypt and the Sudan using up all the Nile water while the countries downstream died of thirst.

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