The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is 70 per cent built, and 15 January 2020 has been set as a deadline to reach an agreement over outstanding differences. Yet the first of four meetings, which the US and the World Bank are attending as (...)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia agreed on Saturday to continue the technical consultations and discussions on all contentious issues over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the second meeting, scheduled to be held in Cairo on (2-3) (...)
“Egypt is seeking a balanced agreement that allows Ethiopia to generate electricity — the purpose of building the dam — without encroaching on Egypt's water rights and interests. Nile water is a matter of life or death for Egypt,” said Foreign (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, currently in the US, had talks on Wednesday with Chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Lindsey Graham on strategic ties between the two sides.
The talks also tackled the need for continued US support for (...)
The meeting Washington hosted yesterday, 6 November, between representatives from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan marks a qualitative step forward in efforts to reach a mutually satisfactory solution to the crisis surrounding the Grand Ethiopian (...)
The 28 May 1991 is a day Ethiopia recalls very well and has adopted as its National Day.
On that day, the forces of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) surrounded and shelled the presidential palace and took control of the (...)
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met in Washington on Wednesday 6 November with the aim of reaching an agreement on the operation and filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in a way that does not affect Egypt's quota (...)
The attention of many observers was riveted on Washington this week, where the foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met to iron out their differences surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project.
The meeting, sponsored by (...)
Egypt President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Monday he was confident the US mediation meeting between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Wednesday, 6 November, in Washington would break the stalemate in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) (...)
At least 78 people were killed in protests in Ethiopia last week against the treatment of a prominent activist, the prime minister's spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Billene Seyoum told a news conference that 409 people had been detained over the (...)
All eyes were on Sochi in Russia late last week, where on the sidelines of a Russia-Africa Summit meeting President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed were set to meet to find a way out from the deadlock in the (...)
Cairo has said it has received an invitation, along with Ethiopia and Sudan, from the US for a meeting on 6 November to break the stalemate on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
At a press conference with his German counterpart, Egypt's (...)
No sooner had Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed celebrated his Nobel Peace Prize than his country was mired in religious and ethnic conflict that killed dozens of Ethiopians.
Sixty-seven people from the Oromia region were killed during two-day (...)
Much of the fighting seen during protests in Ethiopia this week was ethnically tinged, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, describing attacks by young men from the Oromo ethnic group against people from other ethnic groups.
There were clashes in several (...)
Prominent activist Jawar Mohammed does not rule out challenging his erstwhile ally, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, in next year's election, he told Reuters on Friday, after days of demonstrations by his supporters resulted in dozens of (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed agreed that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam's (GERD) independent technical committee should immediately resume its work in a more open and positive way, Egypt's (...)
One aim of the two-day Russia-Africa Summit taking place in the beach resort of Sochi is to open new markets in Africa to compensate for those lost as a result of US and EU sanctions against Russian companies.
“I hope that the forum will help (...)
Former minister of water resources and irrigation Mohamed Nasreddin Allam explained that most Nile Basin states want to sell water and electricity to Egypt
The majority of Nile Basin countries want to sell water to Egypt, while Ethiopia wants to do (...)
Egypt expressed shock at the statements attributed to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hinting at war as an option to solve the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam's (GERD) stalled negotiations with Egypt.
Addressing the Ethiopian parliament on (...)
Hundreds of supporters of an Ethiopian ethnic activist and media entrepreneur gathered outside his house on Wednesday, hours after it was surrounded by police following a warning by the prime minister against media owners "fomenting unrest".
At (...)
Egypt is “shocked by” the statements attributed to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed before the Ethiopian parliament, which included “negative signals and unacceptable hints” on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue, according to a (...)
That the tripartite talks on the Renaissance Dam ended in stalemate earlier this month came as no surprise.
“Throughout the last four years of negotiations, Ethiopia has not shown no inclination to compromise and reach an agreement on the filling (...)
The Nobel Committee has recognised Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's “efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea”, said Berit (...)
The Nobel Committee has recognised Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's “efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea”, said Berit (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has announced that he will meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Moscow to continue discussions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
In a televised talk during the Armed Forces' 31st (...)
