Sisi has asked the US to pressure Ethiopia to reach an agreement with Egypt on the Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. Meanwhile, [ More … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
Former Egyptian Ambassador to Venezuela was arrested on May 29, after his house had been raided Yehya Nigm, the former Egyptian ambassador to Venezuela was arrested by security forces and taken to an unknown destination [ 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 … ]
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry yesterday expressed its anger over Ethiopian officials’ use of “the language of sovereignty” in their recent statements about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). “It is regrettable that the Ethiopian officials use [ 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 Renaissance Dam could displace millions of Egyptians and Sisi should be held fully responsible for this national disaster, an article by David Hearst in the Middle East Eye states. Hearst says the disaster of [ 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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