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BBC: Ethiopia builds dams on th Blue Nile for purposes other than economic development

December 11, 2022 MEO Staff

At a time when Addis Ababa is close to completing its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project without settling its disputes with Sudan and Egypt, circulated reports claim that development is not the main objective [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Human rights concerns as EU promises Egypt $84m in migration deal

June 21, 2022 MEO Staff

Egypt’s coastguard is set to receive €80 million ($84.2 million) from the EU to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from leaving its shores for Europe. A paper drafted by the EU Commission last week says [ More … ]

Latest News

Sudan’s prime minister resgins amid political deadlock

January 3, 2022 Egypt Correspondent

Hamdok steps down as mass protests continue rejecting a deal he signed with the military following a coup on October 25. Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has announced his resignmation in a televised address late [ More … ]

Somalia

Political rift deepening in Somalia after suspending PM and Navy commander

January 2, 2022 MEO Staff

The recent deepening rift between Somalia’s President and Prime Minister has plunged the Horn of Africa country into political crisis, reported Anadolu Agency. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who took office in 2017, suspended Prime Minister, Mohamed [ More … ]

Sudan

Sudan arrests Al Jazeera bureau chief “Kabbashi” following protests

November 14, 2021 MEO Staff

Sudan security forces raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief, El Musalmi El Kabbashi, and arrested him on Sunday, a day after street protests across Sudan against the military takeover, reported Reuters. Security [ More … ]

Sudan

Military Takeover in Sudan Threatens Human Rights, says HRW

October 26, 2021 MEO Staff

Sudan’s military should allow peaceful protests, respect political participation of all, and set detainees free, Human Rights Watch said in a report it published yesterday. Sudan’s military leaders responsible for the 25 October 2021 takeover [ More … ]

Sudan

Sudan: the army takes power in a coup, arrests prime minister

October 25, 2021 MEO Staff

Sudan’s military seized power on Monday, 24 Oct., dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the acting prime minister and other officials, according to the Associated Press. Thousands of people flooded into the streets [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Ethiopia decides to close its embassy in Cairo, says envoy

September 27, 2021 MEO Staff

Ethiopian Embassy in Cairo will close starting in October, says Ethiopian ambassador to Cairo. Does the decision have anything to do with the Renaissance Dam crisis? The Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt Markos Tekle Rike told [ More … ]

East Africa

Ethiopia continues filling the dam on the Nile despite Egypt’s warnings

July 6, 2021 MEO Staff

Egypt has said it received an official notice from Ethiopia that it had started the next phase of filling a controversial huge dam on the Nile River’s main tributary, raising tensions days before an upcoming [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Emirati newspaper promotes a plan to build a new dam in South Sudan

June 27, 2021 MEO Staff

The Emirati English-language newspaper, The National, has promoted a scheme related to the construction of a large dam in South Sudan on the Nile River, despite the Emirati-financed Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis. The newspaper conducted [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Ethiopian Official: Ready for a military solution to GERD, and Egypt not able to destroy it

June 26, 2021 MEO Staff

Director of Ethiopian Defense Ministry’s Engineering Department: Egypt will not be able to destroy the Renaissance Dam, and we are ready for a military solution The Director of the Engineering Department at the Ethiopian Ministry [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt MFA concludes African Tour in Tunisia as GERD crisis looms

April 23, 2021 MEO Staff

On 19 April, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed to Kenya to kick off an African tour, including six African countries, that is South Africa, Senegal, DR Congo, Tunisia and the Comoros. during which, he [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Missing Truth in the Ethiopian Dam Crisis: Column

April 18, 2021 MEO Staff

Al-Jazeera has published an opinion article by Abdel Nasser Salama, former editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram, Egyptian government-owned newspaper, under the title, “The Missing Truth in the Ethiopian Dam Crisis” that will be reviewed hereunder. “We must [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Tunisia’s Saied backing Egypt in dispute over GERD with Ethiopia

April 11, 2021 MEO Staff

During his first official visit to Cairo, Tunisian President Kais Saied expressed his support to Egypt’s “water security” concerns in the Nile dam row opposing it to Ethiopia and underlined Tunisian and Egyptian support to [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Ethiopia rejects 3 proposals by Egypt in Kinshasa negotiations on Renaissance Dam

April 6, 2021 MEO Staff

Talks held in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, on March 4-5 did not achieve any progress or lead to an agreement on re-launching negotiations on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), [ More … ]

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