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 … ]
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 … ]
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’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’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 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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 heavy Sudanese troop presence helped restore calm Tuesday in the Darfur region, after three days of inter-ethnic violence claimed at least 155 lives and displaced tens of thousands. A heavy Sudanese troop presence helped [ 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 … ]
Sudan has apparently told the US that it will not normalize relations with Israel until Washington removes the African country from the list of states which “sponsor” terrorism, the New York Times has reported. The [ 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 … ]
Sudan called on Tuesday upon its citizens in Egypt to exercise self-restraint after the murder of a Sudanese child in Giza to the west of Cairo, Anadolu Agency has reported. “We are following up on the murder [ More … ]
The Sudanese Umma Party, led by Sadiq Al-Mahdi, on Thursday threatened the transitional government of his country over the normalization of ties with Israel, Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement, the Umma Party threatened to [ More … ]
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