埃及和埃塞俄比亚吵起来了，在争谁能往尼罗河放水

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

埃塞俄比亚和埃及关于尼罗河的控制权吵得不可开交。

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.

本周埃塞俄比亚批评埃及政府针对埃塞俄比亚复兴大坝的“无原则”立场，因此加大了几十年来非洲最具争议的外交谈判的价码。

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.

即使两国都表示愿意继续和苏丹就大坝问题进行三方会谈，但埃塞俄比亚却说出这样一番言论。与埃及之间局势紧张的关键在于埃塞俄比亚仍然坚持在7月前开始大坝蓄水。

“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.

周三，埃塞俄比亚外交部长Gedu Andargachew在亚的斯亚贝巴非洲联盟会议厅的记者招待会上对政党代表说：“埃及没有与我方进行认真讨论，而是利用谈判平台要求缩小大坝，降低蓄水量，并将其改成不能满足我们需求的东西。”

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

“他们应该放弃这种阻碍性的做法，转而与有关各方进行合作。”

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.

对埃及而言，埃塞俄比亚未就技术细节达成协议就坚持为大坝蓄水才是问题的关键。大坝水库可蓄水740亿立方米，埃塞俄比亚计划未来两年蓄水约1840万公升。

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

埃及说在没有签署协议的情况下这样做违反国际法，会给其下游供水带来危险。

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

埃塞俄比亚重申，大坝蓄水不需要经过埃及批准。

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

埃塞俄比亚官员指责特朗普政府迫使非洲之角国家做出不合理让步。