Ghana Expelled Boateng and Muntari out of game with Portugal

BeIN Sports Ghana threw Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng out of its World Cup squad for disciplinary reasons on Thursday, plunging the African team into further chaos ahead of its decisive group-stage match against Portugal. Just a day after seeming to resolve a possible player mutiny over World Cup bonus payments, the Ghana Football Association

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Nile River Politics: When El-Sisi Met Desalegn

Middle East Online The guests had been seated at the tables of the great hall in Addis Ababa, and fanfares rang out as the Emperor Haile Selassie walked in with President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt at his right hand. Nasser was a “tall, stocky, imperious man, his head thrust forward and his wide jaws

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More Thoughtful Approach To Building Dams on Abay (Blue Nile) – Part III 

By Getachew Begashaw (PhD)  Building the GERD In the first two partsof this series, we presented a focused analysis of the GERD, based on evidentiary information that is available in the public domain. We argued objectively and cogently that the social, economic, environmental and ecological adverse impacts of the GERD could be incalculable, and that the

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Egyptian anchorwoman suspended after live row with Ethiopia envoy

Ahram Online By Ayat Al-Tawy, An Egyptian broadcaster has been suspended for arguing with Ethiopia’s ambassador to Cairo during a live TV phone-in about Addis Ababa’s ongoing Nile dam project. On Wednesday, Rania Badawy, a talk show host on the privately-owned Tahrir satellite channel, got into a heated argument with Ethiopian envoy Mahmoud Dardir over

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US ‘will stand with Egypt’s people’: Unfrozen $575m

BBC US Secretary of State John Kerry: ‘Critical moment of transition in Egypt’ Washington will “stand with the Egyptian people in their fight for the future they want”, US Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged. He was speaking after talks in the capital Cairo with Egypt’s newly elected President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. Mr Kerry

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US ‘will stand with Egypt’s people’: Unfrozen $575m

BBC US Secretary of State John Kerry: ‘Critical moment of transition in Egypt’ Washington will “stand with the Egyptian people in their fight for the future they want”, US Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged. He was speaking after talks in the capital Cairo with Egypt’s newly elected President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. Mr Kerry

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Sisi will resolve Nile crisis, says Egypt’s new Water Minister

Aawsat.net By Mohamed Abdu Hassanein Sisi to meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam on sidelines of African Union summit later this month Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi takes the oath of office during his swearing-in ceremony as Egypt’s new president at the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, June 8, 2014 in this still image taken from video. (Reuters/Egyptian State

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Sudan asks Egypt to Rejoin Nile Body

AFP Khartoum- Sudan Thursday appealed for Egypt to resume full participation in a 10-nation Nile River forum, four years after Cairo withdrew over fears for its access to the crucial water source. Egypt has limited its participation in the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) since 2010 when Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania signed a new treaty

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Egypt’s new cabinet sworn in: Who’s who in El-Sisi’s new cabinet

Ahram Online This is Egypt’s third cabinet since Morsi’s ouster nearly a year ago and the first under new president El-Sisi The first cabinet under Egypt’s new President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi was sworn in on Tuesday morning, headed by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab. The new government — the third since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed

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The case for a more thoughtful approach to building dams on Blue Nile (Part II)

By Getachew Begashaw Part II: A Critical assessment of building large dams In Part I of this piece, we highlighted the requirements for an appropriately planned, designed, constructed and operated dam on Abay, the Blue Nile, and why it is in the national interest to do so, provided it is executed not for a short-term political and economic

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