[Independent (Kampala)] Comment -- Faced with a current water scarcity and a Republic of Ethiopia determined to go ahead with its second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) this July, Sudan and Egypt have lately intensified cooperation with a number of the Nile Riparian African countries in measures intended to support the development of water resources in these countries, seek alternative ways of maintaining or even better, increase water volumes flowing downstream from the White Nile River as well as influence regional s