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's exports to African Union (AU) countries rose 27.4 percent to $4.736 billion in 2018 from $3.716 billion in 2017, Egypt's state-owned statistics agency CAPMAS said on Monday.
The majority of exports were concentrated in 10 African countries, (...)
Egypt's trade with states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) hit $2.951 billion in 2018, with an increase of 24 percent compared to 2017, according to Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.
According to (...)
The 41st Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) opened on Tuesday with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. A $160 million Netflix production based on Charles Brandt's book I Heard You Paint Houses, it stars Robert De Niro in his ninth collaboration (...)
The last round of peace talks between the Sudanese transitional government and Sudan's Revolutionary Front (SRF), slated for 21 November, was put off despite the signing of the Declaration of Principles in Juba in September and the approaching (...)
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Sunday 17 November
15:00 South Africa vs. Sudan (Group C)
15:00 Chad vs. Mali (Group A)
15:00 Eswatini vs. Senegal (Group I)
15:00 Benin vs. Sierra Leone (Group L)
15:00 Uganda vs. Malawi (Group B)
15:00 South Sudan vs. Burkina (...)
A hat-trick from Bristol City striker Famara Diedhiou helped Senegal outclass Eswatini 4-1 in Mbabane in the 2021 Nations Cup qualifiers on Sunday.
Diedhiou netted his hat-trick in the 59, 66 and 68 minutes and Pape Alioune N'Diaye completed the (...)
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) (...)
El Rashidy El Asly, Egypt's leading confectioner, is seeking to export 30 percent of its products by 2023,according to Managing Director Abdel Naby Madkour.
He further told Amwal Al Ghad during the inauguration of the first phase of its factory in (...)
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Wednesday 13 November
15:00 Malawi v South Sudan (Group B)
15:00 Central African Republic v Burundi (Group E)
18:00 Namibia v Chad (Group A)
18:00 Cameroon v Cape Verde (Group F)
18:00 Guinea-Bissau v Eswatini (Group I)
18:00 (...)
Dedicated to preserving Egypt's historical water quota from the River Nile, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi signed the Declaration of Principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on 23 March 2015, along with the then leaders of (...)
Egypt has always relied heavily on oil and gas as energy sources, and until a few years ago it has also mainly depended on power plants fuelled by oil and coal, with no companies working on generating renewable energy and an absence of solar power (...)
“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 (...)
Pope Francis said on Sunday he wanted to make his postponed visit to South Sudan next year, and he urged the country's leaders to overcome their divisions and bring an end to the suffering of its people.
Francis spoke of the crisis in the world's (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri said following US-sponsored Egypt-Ethiopia-Sudan meetings in Washington on the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), that the talks, in which the World Bank took part, have yielded positive (...)
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed on Wednesday to reach a deal over the filling and operation of a giant hydropower dam in Ethiopia's Blue Nile by 15 January, the US Treasury has said.
Following talks in Washington mediated (...)
قال الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب إنه اجتمع مع مسئولين من مصر وإثيوبيا والسودان لمساعدتهم في حل مشكلة المياه.
وكتب ترامب في تغريدة عبر تويتر:"عقدت اجتماعا مع كبار ممثلي مصر وإثيوبيا والسودان للمساعدة في حل نزاعهم الطويل حول سد النهضة الإثيوبي الكبير، (...)
Cairo is currently establishing a new railway line linking Egypt to Sudan, to act as a platform for the export of Egyptian products to Sudan, Central Africa, and the rest of the African continent, Egyptian Transport Minister Kamel Al-Wazir said on (...)
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 (...)
For many years, the US Congress and successive American administrations have refused to use the term genocide to describe the atrocities the Armenian nation suffered a century ago under the Ottoman Empire — ostensibly for fear of offending Turkey. (...)
On her first overseas tour since her appointment in August 2019, Stevie Spring, new chair of the British Council (BC), visited Cairo for two days and visited projects supported by BC programmes.
Spring recently joined the BC to manage the cultural (...)
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 (...)
War-torn South Sudan is ``barreling toward a crisis'' and could slide back into fighting, warned the International Crisis Group on Monday.
The new report said the country's warring parties aren't ready to form a coalition government on November (...)
