Washington is sending USAID Administrator Samantha Power to Ethiopia this week while warning of punitive measures if aid is unable to reach the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands of people are believed to be experiencing famine.
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Hundreds of Eritrean refugees protested in the Ethiopian capital on Thursday, calling on the United Nations refugee agency to relocate friends and family who they say are trapped in two refugee camps by fighting in the Tigray region.
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The head of the United Nations World Food Program says the agency will ``run out of food'' in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region on Friday, while hundreds of thousands of people there face the world's worst famine crisis in a decade.
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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 (...)
Sudan has declared a state of emergency in the Merowe Dam area, located in the north of the country, in anticipation of floods occurring.
The move comes after the dam's lake received large quantities of water beyond the lake's capacity.
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Thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, where witnesses and U.N. officials say forces have attacked their camps, abducted or killed some of the residents, and stolen their (...)
The Ethiopian foreign ministry said a "win-win" solution to its dispute with Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is still within reach, but that Addis Ababa will not sign any permanent, legal agreement on the massive dam, (...)
On Monday, 19 July 2021, Ethiopia announced the completion of the second filling of the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The announcement failed to specify the amount of water that Addis Ababa managed to withhold from the (...)
Egypt's Ambassador in Moscow Ihab Nasr has met with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin to discuss prospects for settlement in Libya and Syria, as well as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) file.
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International human rights organisation Amnesty International has accused the Ethiopian authorities of arbitrarily detaining dozens of Tigrayans in Addis Ababa and elsewhere in the country.
The move comes in the wake of the Tigray People's (...)
Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, has revealed that her country may resort to the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the unilateral Ethiopian actions in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) (...)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia should agree on a time frame to reach a deal on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Regional Spokesman for the US State Department Samuel Werberg said.
During a phone-in with Sada El-Balad satellite channel on (...)
Witnesses say thousands of Tigrayans are being detained and their businesses closed in cities across Ethiopia in a new wave of ethnic targeting by authorities over the eight-month conflict in the Tigray region.
The detentions follow the dramatic (...)
The UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting that convened on 8 July failed to adopt the draft resolution that Tunisia had tabled on behalf of Egypt and Sudan. The draft called on Ethiopia to negotiate in good faith with the two downstream countries, and (...)
A decade of pointless negotiations with Ethiopia over the building of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile has convinced the Egyptian leadership that it is time to take matters to international mediation before Egypt has to resort (...)
Negotiations are in progress in New York over a proposed Security Council resolution calling on all parties in the dispute over Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) to return to the negotiating table. The goal would be to hammer out a binding (...)
Witnesses say thousands of Tigrayans are being detained and their businesses closed in cities across Ethiopia in a new wave of ethnic targeting by authorities over the eight-month conflict in the Tigray region.
The detentions follow the dramatic (...)
Egyptian Parliament Speaker Hanafy Gebaly stated on Sunday that Egypt has never stood against its brothers' right to development, however, it rejects any infringement of its Nile water rights.
Gebaly was referring to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance (...)
In a meeting that lasted for over three hours, members of the UN Security Council called on Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt to complete their talks, to settle the dispute over the GERD, under the umbrella of the African Union, in good faith and away from (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is set today to warn members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against the "possible worrying consequences" of allowing Ethiopia to get away with its unending intransigence that has blocked all (...)
Egypt's foreign minister said Wednesday he will urge the U.N. Security Council to require Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to negotiate a binding agreement within six months on the contentious issue of water availability from the dam that the Ethiopians (...)
obtained on Wednesday the full text of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The Egyptian-Sudanese draft resolution that was submitted on Friday by Tunisia, the only Arab member of (...)
Egypt and Sudan have made progress by taking the issue of the Ethiopian controversial dam to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, but this progress is conditional according to Amani Al-Tawil, Director of the African Program at Al-Ahram Centre (...)
The Arab League has condemned Ethiopia for attempting to cause a rift between the pan-Arab bloc and the African Union (AU).
A source with the Arab League also expressed the organisation's condemnation of Ethiopia's recent letter to the UN Security (...)
Perhaps within hours, a meeting of the UN Security Council will be held, to discuss the dispute between Egypt and Sudan on the one hand, and Ethiopia on the other, regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that is being built on the Blue (...)
