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For more than a century, engineers, governments, and even intelligence agencies have quietly explored an idea so ambitious it sounds almost impossible: flooding the Qattara Depression with Mediterranean seawater to generate massive amounts of clean energy. Egypt Is About to Flood the Sahara Desert | 15:42 Looking 4 | | 99.4K subscribers | 313,441 views | January 27, 2026

The leading South Sudanese think-tank, The Fashoda Institute of Strategic and Regional Studies has published a strategic analysis of why and how the Egyptian Government is reviving a three-decade-old old idea — one going back to the Anwar as-Sadat Administration — to resolve the country’s acute water crisis. Egypt is reconsidering the idea of a canal diverting waters from the Congo River into the White Nile near Juba, South Sudan, and thus markedly increasing the quantities of water which would eventually reach Lake Nasser behind the Aswan Dam. According to the Egyptian calculations, the quantities of water required to revolutionize...