Ministerial meeting for Nile Basin countries

Ministers of water resources for the Nile Basin countries will convene during March in Kenya to discuss final features for a new cooperation mechanism ratified by experts from the Nile Basin countries during a meeting that took place recently in Nairobi that included the mechanism and the technical, legal and administrative rules necessary for developing the river's resources for the good of the Basin countries' peoples.

An official sources in the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation told ArabicNews.com that the 10 Nile Basin countries the agreed in principle on the new mechanism -- including Ethiopia.

The sources added that the leaders of the countries are expected to sign on the new mechanism after it is ratified by the ministers of the water resources in the Nile Basin countries.