CAIRO, July 16 (Reuters) - Ethiopia told Sudan that the news saying that it has started filling the Renaissance Dam reservoir was incorrect, Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Ethiopia’s charge d’affairs also told a senior Sudanese Foreign Ministry official that his country had not closed the dam gates, the statement added.
Reporting by Omar Fahmy; Writing by Mahmoud Mourad; Editing by Alison Williams
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