- By akumu Kampala uganda Kampala- The Uganda state Minister for Water Jennifer Namuyangu has said that African countries on the upper reaches of the River Nile will be demanded to change the allocation of its waters,. Jennifer Namuyangu told the media that the ministers from upstream eastern Africa had agreed to meet in Uganda on Friday to discus the matter. Egypt, which gets almost all its water needs from the Nile but faces possible shortages by 2017, has angered the upstream states by sticking to colonial-era pacts that guarantee it can use most of the Nile's flow. Egypt and Sudan are supposed to meet in Entebbe to sign a framework agreement reached last year because they…