(BBC)- Ethiopian government says the multi-billion dollar water project poses no threat to Egypt’s share of the Nile Egypt and Ethiopia have signed a series of trade agreements which could help smooth diplomatic tensions over use of the River Nile waters. The countries fell out over Ethiopia’s plans to construct a $4.3bn (£3.4bn) hydroelectric dam
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Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi will have a joint meeting at the end of the year to evaluate studies over navigational linking between Victoria Lake and the Mediterranean at Alexandria seaport. The project will link the Nile Basin countries and increase volume of the intra-regional trade. Ahmed Bahaa, head of
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Ahram Online Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia will choose by December an international firm to conduct studies on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, which Cairo fears will reduce its share of potable Nile water. In a press conference held in Cairo on Sunday, Egypt’s irrigation minister Hossam Moghazi said on Sunday this week’s tripartite talks over the
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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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Dramatic reductions in water levels could lead to conflict. Will legal and diplomatic policies help countries to cooperate? Ilmas Futehally in Mumbai Guardian Professional The River Nile flows past eleven countries including Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya Photograph: Mohamed Abd el Ghany/Reuters Fifty years ago, Lake Chad in Africa had a surface area of
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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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