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 … ]
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 … ]
Pompeo says it could take “months” to resolve a dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday confirmed an ongoing stalemate over Ethiopia’s dam project on the River [ More … ]
Ethiopian officials announced on Friday that negotiations between them and Sudan and Egypt that this past week in Washington ended without a final agreement on the longstanding Nile River dispute. Officials from the three countries [ More … ]
Egypt has blamed Ethiopia for the failure of the latest round of talks on the construction of a controversial Nile dam, a critical issue for Cairo as it seeks to protect its main source of [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed issues warning over Renaissance Dam PM Abiy said his country could ready millions if there is a need to go to war over the dam project opposed by Egypt. Ethiopia‘s prime minister [ More … ]
The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced the return of Minister Mohamed Abdel-Ati from a three-day overseas tour to Sudan and Ethiopia to discuss the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [ More … ]
Israel has been rocked by widespread demonstrations decrying the fatal shooting of an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager at the hands of an off-duty police officer. Protests erupted after Solomon Teka, 18, who was unarmed, was shot by [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s GERD dam is set to reshape the complex water politics of the Nile Basin – and ‘water stressed’ Egyptians will be the biggest losers There have been hold ups and reports of large cost [ More … ]
There have been numerous changes in local and regional politics since the election of Abiy Ahmed into the office of Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Notable is the recent peace agreement reached between Ethiopia and Eritrea [ More … ]
Dramatic water shortage hits Egyptian farmers amid the ongoing problems of the Nile Delta. Last May, the European Parliament released a report titled:” A stable Egypt for a stable region: Socio-economic challenges and prospects “about the challenges that [ More … ]
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