Maximising the use of rainwater is essential for countries which, like Egypt, have limited water resources.
Agriculture based on irrigation makes up just 17 per cent of the world's agricultural lands and is dominant in countries with limited (...)
Ethiopia has fallen far below target in its second filling of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
It initially announced it planned to add 13.5 billion m3 of water to the dam's reservoir. Then it halved the figure to a more conservative 6.9 (...)
The problem in the talks between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the building of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) over the past ten years has not been a failure to compromise to make the negotiations successful, but the fact that Ethiopia (...)
Ethiopia has been making a raucous noise about how it contributes 85 per cent of Nile water and yet receives none of the water from the three rivers that originate in its territory. However, this claim is baseless. In fact, Ethiopia receives the (...)
The Nile is experiencing its highest flooding season in 108 years this year thanks to heavy rainfall on the Ethiopian Highlands, the source of the Atbara, Blue Nile, and Sobat rivers which contribute about 85 per cent of the water of the Nile. The (...)
Ethiopia is desperately trying to delude the international community into believing that Egypt is trying to seize control of the Nile's water and that Ethiopia, the source of 85 per cent of the Nile, gets none.
It also claims that Egypt has (...)
After nine years of Ethiopian intransigence and evasiveness Egypt was forced to turn to the UN Security Council (UNSC) in an attempt to check Addis Ababa's bid to begin filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam reservoir unilaterally, without a (...)
Dams are important to conserve water for sustainable development, prevent flood damage, and store water in seasons of plenty to use in seasons of drought. Today, over 900,000 dams are estimated to exist worldwide, 40,000 of which are on a scale (...)
Haggling, manoeuvring, and time wasting have defined Addis Ababa's stances and actions amid the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam controversy, writes Haggling, manoeuvring, and time wasting have defined Addis Ababa's stances and actions amid the Grand (...)
It appears that we still have several months to go before we see an agreement that spares Egypt from the potential dangers of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The statement released by the Ethiopian ministries of foreign affairs and water (...)
In 1978 Ethiopia's communist leaning government led by president Mengistu Haile Mariam vowed to build a series of dams on the Blue Nile. President Anwar Al-Sadat's response was: “We're not going to wait to die of thirst in Egypt. We'll go to (...)
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Countries bring together their scientists to exchange knowledge and expertise and to benefit from the latest scientific findings and discoveries regarding water at international seminars and meetings. They may also deliberate on (...)
When Egypt announced last week that it had stopped importing Russian wheat for one month due to the local wheat harvest, the global wheat market saw a sharp drop in Russian wheat prices. This is because Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer (...)
International Water Day, celebrated around the world since 22 March 1993, passed unnoticed in Egypt this year. The media drew no attention whatsoever to this annual event in spite of the urgent need to raise public awareness in Egypt of the (...)
Ever since former minister of irrigation Hossam Maghazi proposed a project to link Lake Victoria with the Mediterranean, specialists in water resources have been exploring its feasibility.
While the Nile is the longest river in the world, it is one (...)
Just as his 30-month term in exile was about to end, the Sudanese politician Sadiq Al-Mahdi wrote a long article in an Egyptian newspaper entitled “Intellectual Blockages and the Riparian Dam”.
In it, he condemned Egypt for securing “exclusive (...)
Subsidising agriculture directly and indirectly is one of the cardinal principles of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and is applied by countries around the world. The US government subsidised American farmers to the tune of $100 (...)
Egypt is suffering from an acute food deficit, estimated at around 60 per cent of its strategic food needs. It is barely self-sufficient in fruit, vegetables, potatoes and eggs, and it has to import 70 per cent of its needs in wheat and fava beans, (...)
In 1961 the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel-Nasser invited the then Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to attend the opening ceremony of the newly constructed Coptic Cathedral in Abbasiya in Cairo. Nasser was seeking to mend the rift between (...)
With the advent of Ramadan, and even several weeks before it, the huge hikes in food prices in Egypt sparked numerous questions. This article will try to answer some of the most important of these and look at how effective government policies have (...)
An alarming future looms over Egypt's water security, both in an absolute sense because of projected demands on water resources and in terms of the Ethiopian bid to waylay Nile water destined for Egypt.
Addis Ababa is proceeding from the premise (...)
Egypt experiences three different peaks in food consumption every year. The first is at the start of the academic year in late September, when there is a marked increase in the demand for grocery products, especially eggs, cheese and vegetables, (...)
Since President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with the Ethiopian prime minister in the Equatorial Guinean capital of Malabo in June 2014, nothing has budged. It was there that the two leaders, attending the opening ceremonies of the African Union Summit, (...)
Ethiopia has been having trouble finding finance for its Renaissance Dam. The technologically hazardous and politically incendiary project has failed to whet the appetites of investors though this did not seem to bother the Ethiopian delegation to (...)
A constitution is a country's legal guidebook, a text that shows a country where it is going and what it must keep in mind. In a country like Egypt whose past has been so undeniably connected to its agricultural wealth, it is necessary to make sure (...)