Matek & Walker:
I agree with both of you. This Nile River and L. Victoria situation will lead to conflicts if Egypt does not understand where its geographical sovereignty stops. Egypt should not even think about colonizing the Nile River nor L. Victoria because that is not Egypt. The Nilie river and L. Victoria are not like Palestine where Israelies come in and claim lakes, rivers, and land. This is Africa. Egypt better test its horns sensibly because no country will accept such nonsense.
Rehema M.
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You said it my brother.
and I concur with your observations below.
I can tell you right now that this situation is more likely to explode into yet another war..if not handle properly...10 ,15, 20 years from now!!
Peace My brother.
Matek
In a message dated 2/9/2004 1:05:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you for the stimulating article.
It appears evident to me that the many contradictions among the member states in the Nile Basin Initiative, the general hositlity to the British colonial (1929) legislation of the majority and the differing visions of the optimal use of the Nile river system resources; compounded by the sheer magnitude and scale of the monumental economic, cultural, social and ecological issues involved in the matter; sets up a crisis situation that can only be successfully resolved in the context of effective insitutions of the Pan-African scale.
Both the immediate and long-term solutions will have to take into consideration the fact that the river system, just like other natural elements central to the general African ecosphere, are not the exclusive domain of any one particular geographic region or realm; or social strata. These natural resources are part of the heritage of the entire African people; and most particularly those African communities who are part of the physical and socio-economic structure of the river system. There has to be a political / legisilative process that can operate at the apex level to prevent these kinds of conflicts, which are inevitable given our past, from becoming another in a series of unending hot wars on our continent. We all agree these hot wars are detrimental to sustainable development everywhere in Africa. We do not need more such wars; at the same time the legitimate aspirations and needs of each individual citizen of each African state, demography and society must be fully satisfied based on thouroughly equitable democratic basis, and founded on solid humanist and egalitarian principles consistent with international and African standards of Human Rights.
In short this situation can only be resolved by the African Union taken on the role of federal nation government to regulate these matters of intra-state sovereignty, trade, commerce, civil and human rights. These are trans-state matters which can only be addressed peacefully by a trans-state executive, judicial/legal and parliamentary authority.
Let us remember that water is an essential natural resource, and wars have been fought for century over water...
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"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for th e State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
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