Egypt Independent Egypt has escalated dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry sent a letter to the President of the UN Security Council, on Saturday. The letter explained the latest developments in the dispute. It called on the …
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Egypt Independent Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Aty visited Sudan’s Khartoum “to review strategic relations and discuss issues such as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Wednesday”. The two ministers met Chairman of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council General Abdel …
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Ahram Online “Ethiopia began the second filling of the reservoir behind its mega Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) earlier in May”, a Sudan’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Yasser Abbastold Reuters on Tuesday. “Further construction work on GERD had already allowed the second filling to begin, with the filling …
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Ahram Online “Egypt has prepared three scenarios to deal with the Grand Renaissance Ethiopian Dam’s (GERD) second filling if Egypt and Sudan fail to reach to a legally binding agreement with Ethiopia before next July”, Egyptian Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Ati said told DMC TV, on Wednesday. The Minister indicated that …
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Egypt Today Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pledged to contact the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abi Ahmed, as soon as possible to narrow the difference in views (between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia) on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), and to start another round of “serious negotiations” on this issue. During a …
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Egypt Independent Egyptian monks of the Monastery of ‘Deir al-Sultan’, owned by the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, were surprised when a number of Ethiopian monks stormed the monastery and raised the Ethiopian flag in its grounds on Thursday evening. The monastery, located within the walls of the Old City of …
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Egypt Independent Sudanese Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Yasser Abbas said, on Sunday, that his country’s government is “discussing the prosecution of Ethiopia over stalled negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis (GERD)”. The minister’s statements came after the meeting of the Supreme Committee to follow up on …
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Ahram Online In a letter to Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, on Wednesday, Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmedproposed a meeting by the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) to end the ongoing stalemate over the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Ahmed stressed, “the way forward to break …
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Amr Kandil – Ahram Online The Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation detailed technical fallacies, on Monday, related to Ethiopia’s recent announcement on completing and operating two bottom outlets at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Sunday. A bottom outlet is a lower opening at a dam’s reservoir and is responsible …
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Ahram Online “A politicisation of the its disputed ‘Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis would not lead to a win-win outcome”, said Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen. Mekonnen said, “neither politicisation nor sabotage should rule policies over the Nile”, stressing that “encouraging cooperation should be the …
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