Egyptian Sudan 102 The Nile waters are supplied under a permit from the Egyptian government. The Sudan government accepted this condition and still adheres to it to this day.

In November 1914, the Council of Ministers approved the establishment of an Irrigation Branch in Sudan, which still exists today and has full authority to monitor the Nile waters. In March 1922, a senior irrigation official in the Ministry of Public Works, while acting as minister, wrote to the British Agency, which mediates between the Egyptian and Sudanese governments on water matters, stating: "The Ministry of Public Works wishes to assist the Sudan government in overcoming the difficulties facing the irrigation project in Sudan. It will not permit any authority to interfere with the control of water necessary for Egypt or with the projects intended for the benefit of this country, as has been the custom since the opening of Sudan to this day." "The Ministry of Public Works continues to tighten its control over the Nile waters as it did in the past, allowing for the permanent irrigation of 10,000 feddans after the completion of the Aswan Dam, and then increasing this amount to twenty thousand feddans after the dam was filled. Similarly, in the Gezira irrigation project, which aims to irrigate 300,000 feddans, the Sudan government did not proceed with it until after the approval of the Egyptian government. The Egyptian government has engineers monitoring the aforementioned project, who are accountable to it and receive their salaries from it. The project is funded by a loan contracted by the Sudan government with England. The Egyptian government inspects all irrigation works and increases the budget of this branch by ten thousand pounds, most of which is spent on widening the Nile channel and removing dams."

*** This is what they intended to publish, thinking they would cover up the facts, and thinking they would respond to the Egyptian people's cry, "Sudan is ours." They wanted to instill in the minds of these people that the Nile is in Egypt's grasp and that its waters flow by Egypt's will. We say, and the Egyptian people say: The Sudan issue is settled. Rather, they think they are saying