By Hagar al-Dosoki Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Alemayehu Tegenu has said that his government was “keeping an open mind and heart” ahead of a tripartite technical committee meeting in Cairo on Thursday to discuss an Ethiopian mega dam currently being built on the Nile River. Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Alemayehu Tegenu has said that his government was
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By Nigel Wilson Egypt’s foreign minister (IB Times)-Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are set for key talks on the next stage of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, amid concerns over the potential impact downstream. Water and irrigation ministers from the three countries are due to meet in Cairo to select a consultancy body that would oversee the
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World Bulletin Egypt has brought forward a second meeting of a tripartite technical panel on Ethiopia’s mega-dam on the Nile River – originally slated for October 20 and 21 – to next Thursday and Friday. According to a Thursday statement issued by Egyptian Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi, the adjustment was carried out in order to
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Newstime Africa ARUSHA (AA) – The Tanzanian cabinet has ratified the 2010 Comprehensive Framework Agreement (CFA) signed by upstream Nile Basin countries, known as the Entebbe Agreement. “The Nile River Cooperation Framework will be ratified by the Tanzanian Parliament in next month,” Minster of State in the President’s Office, Professor Mark Mwandosya, told Anadolu Agency
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Ahram Online Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as they arrive to attend the 23rd African Union Summit (AUS) in Malabo June 26, 2014. (Photo: Reuters) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told the Ethiopian PM in New York that he plans to visit Ethiopia, said presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef on
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Ahram Online Egypt’s irrigation minister has stressed that his visit to Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam doesn’t mean that Egypt agrees with the ongoing project, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported. Hossam Moghazy had a tour with his Ethiopian and Sudanese counterparts at the site of the dam on Monday, the first by an Egyptian official since
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Aswat Masriya CAIRO- (Aswat Masriya) – Water ministers of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have adopted the criteria and conditions under which an international consultancy will be formed to conduct the two studies recommended by the committee of experts in May 2013, Egypt’s ministry of irrigation and water resources said Monday. The committee, which is set
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Anadolu Agency A tripartite technical committee tasked with studying Ethiopia’s mega-dam being built on the Nile River convened in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Saturday. The panel brings together four experts from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan for talks on the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The two-day meeting will discuss the date
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Ahram Online Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is expected to discuss Ethiopia’s new dam project with the country’s premier during UN General Assembly meetings in New York later this month. Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi said on Sunday that El-Sisi was also expected to visit Addis Ababa soon for further talks on the matter with Ethiopian Prime
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World Bulletin/News Desk Speaker of the Sudanese Parliament al-Fatih Izz al-Din has left for Benishangul-Gumuz regional state to visit the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a Sudanese diplomat said on Sunday. “Speaker al-Fatih Izz al-Din is the first foreign high official to visit the dam,” the diplomat told Anadolu Agency. He said
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