LIBYA’s quest to use the River Nile water for development in the desert country has been rejected by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) member states, a senior official has disclosed.
The New Vision learnt that the formal request by the Libyan president, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, was rejected by the ministers from the ten countries supplied by the River Nile.
They are Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, DR Congo, Kenya,…