The United Nations has announced that 650,000 persons have been affected by the floods in Sudan, adding that the situation will get worse in the coming days. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of [ More … ]
Security and Defence Council of Sudan has declared a national state of emergency for three months because of floods that have killed 99 people this year. The council also designated Sudan a natural disaster zone, [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, arrived in Sudan Tuesday on a one-day visit aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries, the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported. SUNA said Ahmed was received at Khartoum airport by his [ More … ]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Sudan today, Tuesday, as part of a regional tour to urge Arab states to normalize ties with Israel despite widespread opposition. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Sudan on [ More … ]
Egypt and Sudan suspended talks with Ethiopia after it proposed linking a deal on its newly constructed reservoir and giant hydroelectric dam to a broader agreement about the Blue Nile waters that would replace a [ More … ]
“Batel” Egyptian popular opposition campaign and movement says referendum should be held to annul Renaissance Dam agreement, known as Declaration of Principles (DoP), signed by Sisi in 2015. The Egyptian popular campaign “Batel” (Void), including [ More … ]
The move comes as the latest round of talks between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the contentious dam ended with no agreement. Egypt’s request for urgent intervention by the UN Security Council, sources said Ethiopia [ More … ]
Ethiopia will start filling its $5 billion hydroelectric dam on the Nile River in two weeks, the Ethiopian government said, according to Anadolu Agency. The announcement came on Saturday, one day after an online summit [ More … ]
A UN official has said that he was disappointed because the UN Security Council is not ready to help ease tensions over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, reported the New Khaleej. The UNESCO Chair on International [ More … ]
Ethiopia has been accused of ‘intransigence’ which has to lead to the stalling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations, Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation said. Mohamed Abdel Ati ruled out a [ More … ]
A cross-border attack by an Ethiopian militia has exacerbated a long-established competition over resources Diplomatic efforts to diffuse a security crisis on the border between Sudan and Ethiopia have been ongoing, but the situation on [ More … ]
Sudan army spokesman says fighting over past three days has left at least two people dead and nine wounded. Sudanese general says a chance given for diplomacy before eruption of possible all-out war with Ethiopia! [ More … ]
The US and Sudan have reached a typical understanding on the “contours” of a future bilateral claims settlement linked to the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the U.S. State [ More … ]
State television says the prime minister is safe after a blast in the capital, Khartoum. Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt Monday after a blast went off near his convoy in the capital, Khartoum. [ More … ]
Ethiopia will skip the latest round of U.S.-brokered talks this week on a disputed Nile dam project with Egypt and Sudan, the country’s water ministry announced Wednesday, reported The Associated Press. The U.S.-sponsored trilateral talks [ More … ]
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