A senior official says Sudan has rejected an Ethiopian proposal to manage the filling for a second time of a giant dam that it is building on the Blue Nile deepening a regional dispute over the project.
Addis Ababa has said it will again fill the reservoir behind the multi-billion dollar hydropower dam after seasonal rains start this summer, a move that both Sudan and Egypt oppose without a binding agreement on filling and operating the dam.
The senior Sudanese official says the Ethiopian proposal for the second filling was not real and a way to buy time, adding that any such proposal should come under the auspices of AU mediators and involve all parties.
The official also said that Ethiopia had put forward impossible conditions related to the division of the share of the water, which Sudan considers outside the scope of negotiations.