Sudanese Expert: Trump to Replace Gaza with Sinai
Cairo – Sudanhorizon – Sabah Musa
Dr. Ahmed Al-Mufti, the international expert and former advisor to the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation, has argued that Trump’s recent flirting regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is aimed to lure in Egypt to accept the relocation of Gazans to Sinai, especially since the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is of a paramount importance to Egypt.
Al-Mufti told Sudanhorizon news website that ‘’some may see this change in America’s position in favor of Egypt as being due to Egypt status as a pivotal state in the region, even though Egypt has not only recently enjoyed that position, rather, it has been a key state in the region since times immemorial.”
The Sudanese expert did not rule out the possibility that the reason is that America is seeking to win Egypt on its side, which has become a major military power, to avoid opening a front with Israel, which is busy with several other fronts.
Dr Mufti referred to Trump’s statement that he would quickly resolve the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue. He said that Trump’s utterances about a solution came after he admitted that the USA financed the dam. He added that Trump had explained that Ethiopia was a friend of America, but that it built the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which blocked the flow of water to Egypt. He noted that this behavior is among the strangest in the world of politics for several reasons, the most important of which is America’s opposition to the dam, despite the fact that it financed it, as Trump himself admitted. He added that this opposition is so strong that it has come to define the degree of America’s relationship with Ethiopia, which Trump admitted was a friend of America.
Mufti explained that America has been playing the role of mediator regarding the Nile waters since 2005, when the Nile Basin countries began negotiating the Entebbe Agreement. He said that America doubled this mediation when the Renaissance Dam negotiations started, to the point that it invited the three parties to meetings in Washington when the dispute between them reached its peak. He added that America prepared a consensus draft for them, which Egypt accepted, Ethiopia rejected, and Sudan remained neutral out of undeclared sympathy for Ethiopia.
He explained that the US Administration left the matter but failed to press Ethiopia into taking a different course.
Shortlink: https://sudanhorizon.com/?p=6509