Mohamed Abdel Muttalib hopes agreement with Ethiopia is possible

Thu, 13/03/2014 Al-Masry Al-Youm Reaching an agreement with Ethiopia is possible as talks are the best way to find a solution for the Renaissance Dam crisis, said Water Resources Minister Mohamed Abdel Muttalib during a phone-in with Mehwar Channel Wednesday

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Ethiopia dam to start yielding power by late 2015

Turkish Press March 13, 2014 ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam project will become partially-operational by September 2015, according to Zadig Abraha, head of the project’s supervisory committee. Initially, Abraha added, the mega-dam will be able to produce 750

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Ethiopia Renaissance Dam goes beyond development objectives

03 / 12 / 14 Cairopost By BISHOY RAMZY CAIRO: As Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam continues to stir concern among Egyptians, many experts say the government should take steps to reach a compromise with Ethiopia, while others blame what they describe

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Al-Sisi on official visit to UAE

Aaron T. Rose  March 12, 2014  Defence minister overseeing final stages of military exercises and meeting officials A picture made available by the United Arab Emirates’ official news agency WAM shows Egyptian Defense Minister and Military Chief General Abdel Fattah

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Do massive dams ever make sense? 

By Lauren Everitt, BBC  March 11, 2014 A new report from researchers at Oxford University argues that large dams are a risky investment – soaring past projected budgets, drowning emerging economies in debt and failing to deliver promised benefits .

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Harvard Political Review: “Dam-ed if you don’t”: Egypt and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project

09 March 2014 By Brooke Kantor,  Harvard Political Review The Aswan Dam Water and energy are two central issues to people of the Middle East and North Africa. They have remained at the top of governments’ agendas, enduring regime changes, military

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Egypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over the Nile

By KEITH JOHNSON 09 March 2014 WASHINGTON: Egypt’s musical-chairs government faces enough challenges. So why is a construction project almost 1,800 miles from Cairo provoking fears over Egypt’s national survival? Egypt and Ethiopia are butting heads over the Great Ethiopian

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Our response will be decisive: Egypt tells Ethiopia on Nile dispute

Sat, 08/03/2014 AFP Al-Masry Al-Youm Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy gave Ethiopia the harshest Egyptian warning to Ethiopia in relation to the dispute over Adis Ababa’s dam on the Nile River.   In an interview with Tahrir satellite channel late Friday,

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Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – The Troubled Water!

March 7th, 2014 Egypt’s musical-chairs government faces enough challenges. So why is a construction project almost 1,800 miles from Cairo provoking fears over Egypt’s national survival? Egypt and Ethiopia are butting heads over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a $4

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Israel offers to mediate Ethiopia-Egypt dam row

Friday, March 07, 2014 ADDIS ABABA – Israeli Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir has voiced Israel`s readiness to assist Egypt and Ethiopia reach agreement over the latter`s construction of a multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam on the Nile River. According to Ethiopia`s state-run

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