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Egypt Visits DRC (Chair of African Union) To Discuss Cooperation
July 20th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, an article on a recent visit of the Egyptian water minister to the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is currently chairing the African Union, which is mediating on the dispute over Ethiopia’s dam on the Nile River: Egypt’s water minister visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday. Congo is currently chairing […]
Read more »Can African Union Revive Nile Dam Talks?
July 19th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a look at whether the African Union can revive Nile dam talks: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, in its capacity as the African Union chair, is seeking to host a new negotiation round between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile — […]
Read more »Ethiopia Says UN Role in Nile Dam Row ‘Unhelpful’
July 15th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, an article on Ethiopia’s frustration with the UN’s involvement in the GERD negotiations: Ethiopia on Tuesday blasted as “unhelpful” the intervention of the United Nations in a long-running dispute over its controversial Nile River mega-dam. The huge dam, set to be Africa’s largest hydroelectric project when completed, has sparked an almost decade-long […]
Read more »The Renaissance Dam, after the Security Council
July 15th, 2021
Via Cairo Review, an article on Egypt and Sudan continued insistence on a tripartite agreement to manage Ethiopia’s contentious plan to execute its Renaissance dam on the Nile: On July 8, the United Nations Security Council convened in response to a call by Tunisia, its Arab non-permanent member, to discuss Egyptian and Sudanese objections to Ethiopia’s […]
Read more »Egypt To Security Council: Ethiopian Dam An ‘Existential Threat’
July 12th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on continuing disagreements over the GERD Nile Dam: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry didn’t mince words in making his case Thursday to the UN Security Council that the dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). “Egypt — a nation of over 100 million souls — is facing an existential threat,” Shoukry told […]
Read more »Ethiopia Begins Second Filling of Nile Dam
July 8th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report that Ethiopia has informed Egypt, Sudan that the second filling of Nile dam has begun: The diplomatic row over Ethiopia’s mega-dam on the Nile River continued this week with the reported start of the second filling of the dam and a disagreement on the Arab League’s role in the dispute. Sudan’s […]
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