Transmar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IACC Holdings, a leading container shipping company-owned and operated exclusively by Egyptians, has been taking part in promoting trade within the region between Egypt and its most strategic diplomatic and (...)
First, the soldiers stole their belongings. Then they took their food. On their third and final visit, the woman said, the soldiers raped her and her daughter-in-law until they were unable to walk.
What sets these assaults in South Sudan apart from (...)
The European Union has suspended budget support for Ethiopia worth 88 million euros ($107 million) until humanitarian agencies are granted access to people in need of aid in the northern Tigray region.
In a blog post published on Friday, the EU's (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Thursday the latest developments in bilateral relations with a Sudanese delegation led by Sudan's ruling Sovereign Council member Shamseldin Kabashi, the Egyptian presidency announced.
El-Sisi and (...)
Africa should see the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March from the global COVAX effort aimed at helping lower-income countries obtain the shots, the World Health Organization's Africa chief said Thursday, as deaths on the continent are rapidly (...)
A Sudanese military helicopter loaded with weapons and ammunition crashed Wednesday, shortly after taking off from an airport in an eastern province bordering Ethiopia, officials said.
The Apache attack helicopter burst into flames after crashing at (...)
The virtual meeting between the foreign and irrigation ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Sunday, the second in less than a week, failed to move forward negotiations on the filling and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
A (...)
Egypt will be watching closely as South Africa hands over the presidency of the African Union (AU) to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the second week of February, hoping that the move will push forward the long, and so far (...)
Tensions are rising between Sudan and Ethiopia on the back of the failure of the last round of tripartite negotiations – with Egypt – over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). An unresolved border dispute between Khartoum and Addis Ababa has (...)
Challenges of the dam
Cairo University professor of water resources Nader Noureddin talks about the challenges of building and operating the Aswan High Dam
On 14 January 1971, Nader Noureddin, today a well-known expert on water resources, was about (...)
The 13th Luxor International Painting Symposium (LIPS, 3-17 December) closed in the buildup to New Year's Eve, the perfect time to go to Luxor. The 10-hour train journey had been hectic but the participating artists' warm reception more than made up (...)
Ethiopia warned Sudan on Tuesday it was running out of patience with its neighbour's continued military build-up in a disputed border area despite attempts to diffuse tensions with diplomacy.
The decades-old dispute over al-Fashqa, land within (...)
The last chapter in the most controversial US presidential elections in living memory unfolded on 7 January when thousands of outgoing US president Donald Trump's supporters stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, the seat of the US government (...)
The United Nations fears “massive community transmission” of COVID-19 in Ethiopia's troubled Tigray region, fueled by displacement and the collapse of health services, as humanitarian workers finally begin to access the region two months after (...)
A senior Ethiopian general said in a video clip posted on social media this week that Eritrean troops had entered the country uninvited while his soldiers were battling a rebellious force in the northern region of Tigray.
The video, whose (...)
About 2.2 million people have been displaced within Ethiopia's Tigray region since fighting erupted there in November with about half fleeing after their homes were burned down, a local government official said.
Gebremeskel Kassa, a senior (...)
The Ethiopian government late on Monday said that humanitarian assistance is being provided as planned in Ethiopia's conflict-hit northern Tigray regional state.
The remark was made by Demeke Mekonnen, Ethiopia's deputy prime minister and foreign (...)
Peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis came to a complete standstill in April 2014. Six years later, the two sides have failed to agree on a negotiating framework that will enable them to bring peace to the Holy Land, thus (...)
2020 has not been, by all accounts, an ordinary year in human history. There were no global, regional or economic disasters. There was no cold war that made the international order descend into chaos. To the whole world's great surprise, it was a (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed in Cairo on Tuesday the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the Egyptian presidency announced.
President El-Sisi (...)
On Monday Sudan skipped the second day of tripartite talks intended to reactivate stalled negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). A day earlier, the six-party meeting, held after a nearly six-week impasse in the AU-brokered (...)
After 13 years of its deployment in Darfur, the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force UNAMID has begun its withdrawal from the restive region of western Sudan amid fears of renewed violence between rebel militias and government forces and of (...)
Since storming off stage during a live debate on the Israeli military operation in Gaza aired during the Davos Conference in 2009, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acquired a reputation for anti-Israeli rhetoric. Following the Mavi Marmara (...)
In his final days in office, Barack Obama sought a UN Security Council resolution to pressure Israel to stop building settlements. Donald Trump, by contrast, is working as fast as he can to finalise controversial normalisation deals between Israel (...)
Egypt has affirmed the need to reach an agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) before the second filling of the massive dam's reservoir, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry took part in a (...)
