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Egypt Steps Up Action As Threat Of Water Scarcity Looms
June 10th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Egypt is advancing a number of projects to address the water scarcity problem, at a time that tensions between Cairo and Addis Ababa are on the rise over the failure to reach an agreement on the operation and filling of Ethiopia’s controversial dam on the Blue Nile: Egypt has […]
Read more »An Emerging Nile Basin Security Organization
June 5th, 2021
Via Eurasia Review, an article on an emerging Nile Basin Security Organization: Egypt is taking a central role in the design of what may become a “Nile River security organization” or similar body to enforce freedom of water use. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is creating not only a regional grouping around the perennial issue […]
Read more »Ethiopia’s Reported Filling of Nile Dam Heats Up Tensions With Egypt, Sudan
May 28th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on Ethiopia’s reported filling of Nile dam which is heatiing up tensions with Egypt, Sudan: Egypt and Sudan held joint military drills in Sudan this week amid reports that Ethiopia had begun a second filling of its controversial Nile dam. Egyptian ground, naval and air forces, including special forces and paratroopers, […]
Read more »Can Egypt Avoid Being Harmed By Second Filling of Nile Dam?
May 25th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Egypt’s foreign minister says Cairo can compensate for the second filling of Ethiopia’s controversial dam on the Blue Nile as a result of the projects the Egyptian government is implementing to confront water scarcity: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry recently spoke about the government’s ability to overcome the second filling of the Grand […]
Read more »GERD Lock: A Knot of Contradictions In Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia Dispute
May 14th, 2021
Via New Eastern Outlook, commentary on the decade long dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: There has been a decade-long dispute over the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile since 2011. Recently, after the final failure of the negotiations in Kinshasa, this dispute has intensified between Cairo and […]
Read more »Egypt Explores Water Alternatives With Nile Dam Set To Fill
April 29th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, an article on Egypt’s efforts to work on water projects with South Sudan in a bid to make up for water lost from the Nile as Ethiopia fills its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Many observers believe that Egypt is left with two choices regarding the negotiations on filling and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD): a military confrontation […]
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