Ahram Online The Egyptian foreign minister along with his Ethiopian counterpart stressed that Ethiopia will understand the importance of the Nile River to Egypt and that Egypt will understand the Ethiopian need for development Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as they arrive to attend the 23rd African Union
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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Pierre Crabitès Foreign Affairs October 1929 THE Egyptian Gazette of May 9, 1929, carried the text of an agreement on the long-debated question as to the use of the waters of the River Nile. The agreement, which recognizes on the one hand.that the Sudan needs more water for its development, and on the other hand that
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World Bulletin Kuwait’s Ambassador in Addis Ababa on Thursday said that his country made efforts to ensure that a suspension of Egypt’s African Union (A.U.) activities would be reserved. “The efforts Kuwait makes to ensure that this suspension is lifted boil down to Egypt’s importance and its role in the pan-African body, Rashed Faleh al-Hajri
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World Bulletin/News Desk The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it had noticed a shift in Egypt’s stance regarding its multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam, currently being built on the Nile’s upper reaches, which Cairo has long feared would reduce its traditional share of water. “Egyptians have begun to show willingness… to resolve the Nile water dispute
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