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 (...)
In a strong signal of Moscow's intention to play a greater role in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Cairo on Monday to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.
Lavrov's (...)
Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has revealed that his country had proposed technical assistance in the Ethiopian Nile dam negotiation, but there was no call for mediation.
Lavrov added that Russia supports the efforts of the (...)
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 (...)
Political myopia led the Norwegian Nobel Institute to grant its once highly coveted and prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to a war criminal in 2018. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was presented with the prize by the institute when he portrayed (...)
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 (...)
Egypt's Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait began, on Sunday, an official two-day visit to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
The visit aims to strengthen Egypt's relations with its southerly neighbour, and provide support to the Sudanese government in (...)
Sudan will receive $400 million from Saudi Arabia and UAE to fund agricultural production inputs for this year's summer and winter seasons, the state-news agency SUNA said on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia has committed to investing $3 billion in a joint fund (...)
Egypt will not allow a water crisis on its land, as it would have repercussions both for the country as well as for the entire region, according to Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Atty.
In televised statements on Saturday (...)
Egypt has rejected an Ethiopian invitation to form a tripartite group of representatives from Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia to exchange data on the second filling of the disputed Ethiopian dam.
In a statement on Saturday, Egypt's Ministry of Water (...)
Despite the lack of an agreement in sight between the three countries over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia's Minister of Water and Irrigation Seleshi Bekele has invited Egypt and Sudan to nominate operators for its controversial (...)
Ethiopia has invited Egypt and Sudan to nominate their representatives as dam operators to exchange data before the second filling of the former's controversial dam.
It also highlighted its intention to commence the dam's filling during the upcoming (...)
Egypt and Sudan have rejected on Saturday a proposal by Ethiopia for a data exchange on its disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ahead of it's planned second filling of the dam in July.
In an official statement, Egypt's irrigation (...)
Egypt's Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Elsayed Elkosayer met, on Thursday, with South Sudan's Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Josephine Lago, and Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, Onioto Adigo, during the former's visit (...)
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan expressed US concerns over the crisis in the Tigray region in a call with Ethopia's deputy prime minister, Demeke Mekonnen, the White House said on Thursday.
The two "discussed critical steps to (...)
Uganda announced, on Wednesday evening, that it has signed a military intelligence-sharing agreement with Egypt, against the backdrop of rising tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latter's massive dam on the Blue Nile, according to a (...)
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Wednesday for implementation of the 2018 peace agreement in South Sudan, disarmament of former combatants and establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission as key targets in proposed benchmarks for (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi asserted, on Wednesday, the justice of his country's water cause, and that comes in accordance with the norms of international law.
Speaking on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue, Al-Sisi stressed (...)
Sudan's Minister of Irrigation Yasser Abbas said, on Wednesday, that all options remain open to solve the Ethiopian dam crisis, including resorting to the UN Security Council and international community.
In a statement, Abbas said that Khartoum (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi called on Ethiopia no to compromise Egypt's share of Nile water saying "all options are possible, while assuring that cooperation is better than fighting.
"I say to our Ethiopian brothers, [we] should not get (...)
The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia.
They arrive in heat that soars above 38 C (100 F), carrying the pain of gunshot (...)
