DR Congo to host talks on controversial Ethiopia dam

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan’s foreign ministers to meet in Kinshasa on Saturday for 3-day talks on the Renaissance Dam.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet in Kinshasa from Saturday for talks on the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, Democratic Republic of the Congo officials said. The three-day meeting will be hosted by President Felix Tshisekedi, who took over the chair of the African Union last month, officials at the foreign ministry and presidency said on Wednesday, confirming a report in the publication Jeune Afrique. The chairman of the AU’s Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, is also expected to attend, Jeune Afrique said.