Hanna Yohannes interview

"We are a country downstream," he said, "we are the final country and there is no other country after us."

Egypt obtains 85% of its participation in the water of the blue Nile that has its source in the Lake Wool of Ethiopia and only 15% of the white Nile. The two tributaries meet in the Sudanese capital, Jardum, before the river passes to Egypt.

The Egyptians have enjoyed the part of the Nile Water, a status confirmed by the colonial era of 1902 and 1929 made by the British and a 1959 bilateral treaty between Egypt and Sudan. The latter assigned 55.5 billion cubic meters of Nile and Sudan to Egypt 18.5 billion cubic meters.