Both before and after Addis Ababa began to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egypt was untiring in its efforts, first, to promote consensus between countries at the sources of the Nile and downstream countries, and, second, to (...)
In April 2011, Ethiopia announced its intention to proceed with the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of the country about 30km from Ethiopia's border with Sudan. The main (...)
Almost a month after walking out of US-brokered tripartite negotiations, Addis Ababa is working on another proposal for an agreement it said it will deliver to Egypt and Sudan soon.
“We won't subscribe to an agreement just because the US and the (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri this week completed a six-state African tour designed to lobby support for Egypt's proposals for a way out of the impasse over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Shoukri's tour (...)
أعلنت الخطوط الجوية التركية، اليوم الأحد، أنها ستوقف كل رحلاتها الدولية باستثناء 5 وجهات اعتبارا من يوم 27 مارس الجاري، بسبب تفشي فيروس كورونا المستجد.
وقال الرئيس التنفيذي للشركة بلال إيكسي، اليوم، عبر حسابه الرسمي ب"تويتر"، إن ا"لخطوط الجوية (...)
Egypt has comments on some technical issues in construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and Ethiopia has not sent the latest designs of the Dam so far, said Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Aty on (...)
Africa has received a much-needed coronavirus care package from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma.
A cargo flight containing more than 6 million medical items arrived Sunday in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The supplies from Ma, the founder of China's (...)
Niger hailed on Friday Egypt's efforts in the past years to reach an agreement over the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
During a meeting between Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Thursday handed over a message to Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi over a disputed dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile, the ministry said.
The message, from Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, is the (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry handed over a message to his Tanzanian counterpart Palamagamba Kabudi over Ethiopia's controversial dam on the River Nile, the Egyptian ministry said.
The message, sent from Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi received a phone call on Thursday from German Chancellor Angela Markel to discuss the latest development of international efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as well as other regional issues (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received on Tuesday a phone call from his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, where the two leaders exchanged views on the latest developments of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) after the (...)
The thought of potential gains from the construction and operation of Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) must be behind the Sudanese refusal to initial the draft agreement prepared by the US Department of the Treasury in collaboration (...)
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 (...)
Egypt has taken several diplomatic initiatives in the last two weeks to explain to the world the present situation concerning negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia failed to reach a final agreement on (...)
Kenya supports Egypt's “positive stance” on the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), President Uhuru Kenyatta told Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in a phone call on Tuesday.
El-Sisi's spokesman Bassam Rady said the president (...)
As the UN, with US support, continues to press for the implementation of the Berlin process set into motion by the international conference on Libya that took place in the German capital on 19 January, two other initiatives to resolve the (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza to deliver a message from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Tuesday, as Cairo attempts to garner international (...)
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River meant to turn Addis Ababa into Africa's biggest power exporter, but Egypt fears the dam, which is under construction near Ethiopia's border with Sudan, would significantly diminish its (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met on Sunday Deputy Head of Sudan's Sovereign Council Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo (Hamidati), in the presence of Egypt's General Intelligence Service Chief Abbas Kamel, according to a presidency statement.
Al-Sisi (...)
Minister of Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates' Affairs Nabila Makram commended Saturday Egyptian expats in the US for launching an online campaign for protecting Egypt's Nile water rights.
Launched by a group of Egyptian academics and (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry handed a message to his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian on the latest developments of Ethiopia's disputed Nile dam project during a meeting in Paris on Friday, the foreign ministry said in a (...)
Kenya and Ethiopia confirmed their first cases of the new coronavirus on Friday, a woman who had returned to Nairobi from the United States and a Japanese national in Addis Ababa.
Authorities in Nairobi banned all major public events and said they (...)
Sudan voiced reservations on the resolution of the Arab League foreign ministers' meeting held in Cairo last week. The Arab League resolution of 4 March called for supporting Egypt, that adheres to international law in the tripartite negotiations on (...)
On 5 March, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli said that Egypt would exert every effort to back Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
He praised the Egyptian candidate's 27-year experience in (...)
