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Egyptian Foreign Minister on African Tour as Nile Dam Issues Loom
April 20th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on the Egyptian foreign minister’s African tour as Nile dam issue loom: Egypt’s top diplomat is currently on a tour of African states. One reason for the blitz is to build support for Cairo’s position regarding the dispute over Ethiopia’s mega dam on the Nile River. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry […]
Read more »Egypt, Sudan Refuse Ethiopian Proposal on Filling Nile Dam Reservoir
April 19th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Egypt and Sudan refused Ethiopia’s proposal for a partial agreement to form a mechanism to exchange data about the measures to implement the next stage of filling the GERD reservoir: Following the failure of the Kinshasa talks — which according to Egyptian officials may have been the last chance to resolve the outstanding […]
Read more »GERD-Lock: Nile Dam Talks Fail, Crisis Escalates
April 8th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on the crisis around GERD: At his Senate confirmation hearing in January, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the crisis in Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could “boil over” in the absence of a diplomatic resolution. It didn’t take long. ‘Last chance’ for diplomacy flops in Kinshasa. Egyptian […]
Read more »Egypt Warns Ethiopia Dam Risks ‘Unimaginable Instability’
April 1st, 2021
Via Terra Daily, an article on continuing tensions over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that Ethiopia’s enormous dam project, upstream on the Nile, risked causing “unimaginable instability”. The dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been simmering for around a decade and mediation attempts with downstream […]
Read more »GERD-Lock: Egypt, Sudan Step up Diplomatic Action
March 25th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on how – as Egypt and Sudan intensify diplomatic action on the regional and international levels to confront the unilateral Ethiopian policies on the Nile dam – Ethiopia is seeking a countercoalition with regional countries: In a bid to confront unilateral Ethiopian policies on the Blue Nile, Cairo and Khartoum […]
Read more »Ethiopia Rejects Outside Mediation in Nile River Dam Dispute
March 21st, 2021
Via AP News, a report on Ethiopia’s rejection of outside mediation in Nile River dam dispute: An Ethiopian official said on Tuesday that his government opposes calls by Sudan for outside mediators including the United States in the ongoing dispute over Ethiopia’s construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile River. Ethiopia is generally opposed […]
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