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From: Tsegai Emmanuel (emmanuelt40@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 12 2011 - 11:01:20 EDT
Ethiopia rejects Sudan’s ambassador nominee: report
August 11, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Ethiopian government has reportedly
rejected Sudan’s nominee for ambassador, a newspaper said today.
The independent Al-Sahafa daily said that Khartoum’s candidate Abdel-Rahman
Sir al-Khitim has yet to receive approval from Addis Ababa since he was
nominated three months ago.
Al-Khitim has recently held the ambassadorial post in Cairo before it was
decided that he would be head Sudan’s mission in Addis Ababa.
But the Sudanese foreign ministry spokesperson Al-Obaid Marawih told
Al-Sahafa that Khartoum will submit a new nominee after it was understood
that Ethiopia’s delay was a subtle message on their disapproval of
Al-Khitim.
It is not clear why Ethiopia would reject Al-Khitim who was Sudan’s defense
minister in the 90’s and governor of El-Gezira state. He is a close friend
of president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.
Al-Khitim also enjoyed good relationship with the Egyptian government under
deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt, Ethiopia and seven other countries through which the Nile river
passes have been locked in more than a decade of contentious talks driven by
anger over the perceived injustice of a previous Nile water treaty signed in
1929.
The major Arab power, threatened by rising temperatures and a growing
population, is almost entirely dependent on the Nile for its water and has
been nervously watching hydropower dam projects take shape in upriver
nations.
Ethiopia is building a multi-billion dollar mega dam on its share of the
river, which accounts to eighty-five percent of the Nile’s water.
(ST)
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