Former Editor-in-Chief of Egypt’s Al-Ahram government-owned newspaper, Abdel Nasser Salama has called on Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to step down, blaming him for the “heavy defeat” suffered by the country before Ethiopia in the dam crisis. In [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
Security and Defence Council of Sudan has declared a national state of emergency for three months because of floods that have killed 99 people this year. The council also designated Sudan a natural disaster zone, [ 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 … ]
The Egyptian opposition “Batel” campaign sent a message to commanders and officers of the Egyptian army, calling upon them to move to face what it described as the disasters caused by the coup leader Abdel-Fattah [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
Former Ethiopian prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn has blamed the archaic colonial agreements over the use of the Nile waters for the prevailing stalemate his country has with Egypt. Egypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over [ More … ]
Tensions between Egypt and upstream Nile basin countries, Sudan and Ethiopia, have flared up again over the construction and effects of a massive dam being built by Ethiopia on the Nile River. A new mega-dam [ More … ]
Egypt said on Tuesday it had suggested to Ethiopia and Sudan that they all call in international experts to help settle a dispute on an Ethiopian dam project on the River Nile. Egypt fears the [ More … ]
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