The US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman commenced a trip to the Horn of Africa and Egypt, on Tuesday, to address political and security issues in the region.
The trip will see Feltman visit Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan, to (...)
Ethiopia's Ambassador to Sudan Yebtal Imro said, on Saturday, that Sudan's recent statement regarding its adherence to African Union (AU)-led talks to fill and operate the Ethiopian dam is a promising step.
Imro also said that such a step will help (...)
Threats made by downstream countries regarding Ethiopia's Blue Nile dam are "useless", according to Dina Mufti, Spokesperson for Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Mufti's comments were directed at Egypt and Sudan, who have expressed (...)
Egypt and Sudan have renewed their aim to hold a new round of negotiations on the controversial Ethiopian dam project, following the failure of last round of talks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The African Union (AU)-led talks had (...)
Ethiopia accused, on Saturday, internal and external forces of working to threaten its internal stability, stressing that these pressures will not prevent the second filling of the Nile Dam and upcoming elections.
The accusations came in statements (...)
Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas called the European Union on Thursday to support Sudan's position in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) talks to expand the number of mediators in the negotiations, Sudanese State News Agency (SUNA) (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed on Thursday the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute in Tunis with his Tunisian counterpart Othman Jerandi, the Egyptian foreign ministry stated.
Shoukry arrived (...)
Ethiopia has called upon the African Union (AU) to host a meeting with the three parties involved in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations, to break the deadlock.
Early in April, Egypt officially announced the failure of the latest (...)
The successive developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis resemble the ravaging River Nile floods that occurred in the past, sweeping the homes of ordinary people away with them.
These floods also threatened many lands and (...)
Hopes have nearly evaporated for a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in less than six weeks, for that is when Ethiopia wants to start blocking the flow of water to Sudan and Egypt to (...)
Ethiopia's political elite used Amharic for over a century as a means to unify the country and ensure the Amhara ethnic group controlled the empire. Today, however, Amharic is more of a tool for schism and division of the federal state.
Since 2019 (...)
Egypt showed great flexibility during negotiations over the past 10 years, hoping for reaching a fair and legally binding agreement regarding the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The remarks were made by Egypt's (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukrymet on Monday with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, at the start of his tour to a number of African countries.
Nairobi represents the first leg of the African tour that includes the Comoros, South (...)
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced that his country will commence the second filling of its controversial Blue Nile dam's reservoir in July and August.
Making the announcement via Twitter, Ahmed said, "The next filling takes place (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Thursday the latest developments concerning the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) with the president of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh in a telephone call, the Egyptian presidency said in a (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told Egyptian MPs on Thursday that Egypt's High Dam and its water reservoir will allow the country to absorb the negative impact of the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
"I say this (...)
On the banks of the Nile River, more than 5,000 years ago, the Ancient Egyptian farmer began sowing wheat seeds after the river's annual flood.
The sowing of these seeds heralded the flood and the abundant water and fertile soil that it brought to (...)
In an unusually abrasive statement, the Foreign Ministry of Ethiopia slammed Sudan for allegedly changing its position on the impact of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Sudan's water security during the flood season, and criticised (...)
Egypt's political parties fully back President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi over ongoing negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Mohamed Tayseer Mattar, leader of the Alliance of Egyptian Parties, said during a press conference on (...)
Developments in the crisis over Ethiopia's construction of a dam on the Blue Nile and the potential existential threats to Sudan and Egypt that poses are crucial. They present the international community with a chance to demonstrate its ability to (...)
The increasing importance of the Red Sea as a nexus of geopolitical competition poses security problems to countries in the region. A lack of consensus on the rules of competition among international and regional powers has only intensified the (...)
For untold centuries, the Nile River has been the quiet and enduring lifeline of millions of people who have throughout the ages inhabited its banks, building civilisations and living peacefully with each other and benefiting from its waters without (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi sent a clear warning to Ethiopia on 30 March, stating that Egypt's right to the Nile water will not be compromised and that its share in its lifeline is a "red line". He added that tensions regarding this topic will (...)
The Ethiopian government has clearly fallen into the trap of excessive exploitation of the Renaissance Dam to political ends. As it reels beneath mounting pressures both at home and abroad, due to both the cumulative effects of erroneous policies (...)
Setting a dangerous precedent in the history of the Nile Basin, Ethiopia has now said it might mull over "selling" Nile water.
Responding to a question from the TV channel Aljazeera on selling "extra" water after the full construction of the Grand (...)
