24 April 2014 Cairo (AFP) – Egypt’s foreign minister Nabil Fahmy was travelling to the United States on Wednesday, his ministry said, a day after Washington decided to provide Cairo with 10 Apache military helicopters. Washington had imposed a temporary…
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23 April 2014 By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile’s waters, and may help transform one of the world’s poorest countries…
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21 April 2014 Al Jazeera While construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam continues apace, downstream neighbour Egypt is crying foul. In the three years since construction began on the 1.8km Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam across the Blue Nile River, Egypt…
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21 April 2014 Somaliland Press Egypt is threatening Sudan’s safety by blocking international loans for Ethiopia’s hydro-dam, said Sudan’s top official of Eastern Blue Nile State Hussein Ahmad. According to the Sudanese mp, cash-strapped Ethiopia will end up shortcutting the…
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21 April 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abune Mathias has indefinitely postponed a visit he was scheduled to pay to Cairo on Friday upon a request from the Egyptian Orthodox Church, a source…
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Ethiopia’s ‘logic’ behind the construction of the Renaissance Dam is shocking, perhaps even more so than the issue of the dam itself By Ahmed El-Sayed Al-Naggar , Ahram Online Addis Ababa is either unaware of such a thing as international…
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20 April 2014 Turkish Press ADDIS ABABA – A Sudanese governor has said that an Ethiopian dam project on the Nile River, which has been the source of tension with Egypt, will benefit Sudan. “The dam will contribute share in…
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Ahram Online 18 Apr 2014 Egypt’s irrigation ministry said it was about to conclude studies on the construction of a new dam in Africa’s newest state, South Sudan, as part of Egyptian aid pledged to the war-torn country. All the…
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Nile dam study fails to stem tide of Egyptian indignation towards Ethiopia Claim and counter-claim has attended the delayed publication of a report on the likely impact of the Grand Renaissance dam Sudanese villagers on the river Nile. Ethiopia’s Gerd…
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Daily News Egypt April 12, 2014 By Jake Lippincott On Sunday the Grand Ethiopian Dam Project (GERD) Panel of Experts slammed a 31 March report issued by the International Rivers Network (IRN), titled “GERD Panel of Experts Report: Big Questions…
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