埃及和埃塞俄比亞吵起來了，在爭誰能往尼羅河放水

Ethiopia and Egypt are pushing each other to the brink in a battle for control on the river Nile.

埃塞俄比亞和埃及關於尼羅河的控制權吵得不可開交。

When Ethiopia, this week, criticized the Egyptian government for its “unprincipled” stand on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) it raised the stakes on one of the Africa’s most contentious diplomatic negotiations in recent decades.

本週埃塞俄比亞批評埃及政府針對埃塞俄比亞復興大壩的“無原則”立場，因此加大了幾十年來非洲最具爭議的外交談判的價碼。

The comments came even though both states have expressed a willingness to return to tripartite talks with Sudan, over the dam. The key source of the tension with Egypt is that Ethiopia remains adamant to start filling the dam’s reservoir by July.

即使兩國都表示願意繼續和蘇丹就大壩問題進行三方會談，但埃塞俄比亞卻說出這樣一番言論。與埃及之間局勢緊張的關鍵在於埃塞俄比亞仍然堅持在7月前開始大壩蓄水。

“Instead of earnest discussion, Egypt has used the negotiation platform to demand that the dam be smaller, carry a lower volume of water, and be turned into something that wouldn’t fulfill our needs,” said Gedu Andargachew, Ethiopia’s foreign minister speaking at a press conference with political party representatives at Addis Ababa’s African Union Conference Hall on Wednesday.

週三，埃塞俄比亞外交部長Gedu Andargachew在亞的斯亞貝巴非洲聯盟會議廳的記者招待會上對政黨代表說：“埃及沒有與我方進行認真討論，而是利用談判平臺要求縮小大壩，降低蓄水量，並將其改成不能滿足我們需求的東西。”

“It’s up to them to leave this obstructive approach and instead cooperate with the parties involved.”

“他們應該放棄這種阻礙性的做法，轉而與有關各方進行合作。”

Ethiopia’s insistence on filling the reservoir without an agreement on technicalities is a major sticking point for Egypt. The dam’s reservoir has a capacity of 74 billion cubic meters, and Ethiopia plans on storing around 18.4 million cubic liters of water in it in the coming two years.

對埃及而言，埃塞俄比亞未就技術細節達成協議就堅持爲大壩蓄水纔是問題的關鍵。大壩水庫可蓄水740億立方米，埃塞俄比亞計劃未來兩年蓄水約1840萬公升。

Egypt says doing so without a signed agreement is a breach of international law and would dangerously impact its own water supply downstream.

埃及說在沒有簽署協議的情況下這樣做違反國際法，會給其下游供水帶來危險。

Ethiopia has reiterated that it doesn’t need Egyptian approval to fill the dam.

埃塞俄比亞重申，大壩蓄水不需要經過埃及批准。

Ethiopian officials accused the Trump administration of pressuring the Horn of Africa country to make unreasonable concessions.

埃塞俄比亞官員指責特朗普政府迫使非洲之角國家做出不合理讓步。