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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
“No one can take a drop of water from Egypt,” Egypt’s Sisi says on GERD dispute, warning Ethiopia dam risks ‘unimaginable instability’, and that Egyptian response will be felt if the country’s water supply is [ More … ]
For the first time since the formation of the Sudanese ruling military council, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El Sisi officially visiting Khartoum on Saturday 06 of March, Presidential spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement on [ More … ]
A new round of negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt aimed at resolving a long-running dispute about a giant dam Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile has broken down once again. The Grand Ethiopian [ More … ]
The three African nations say they failed to agree on new approach to resolve dispute over Ethiopia’s mega-dam project Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have once again failed to agree on a new negotiating approach to [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
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