Ahram Online “Addis Ababa’s insistence on going ahead with filling the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the absence of a legally binding agreement with the downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, violates the rules of international law”, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry reiterated on Tuesday. Shoukry addressed …
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Egypt Today Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights, a founding member of the African ‘Nile for Peace’ Initiative stressed, on Sunday, “the need to delay the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) until the relevant parties could reach a binding agreement on this score”. The …
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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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Egypt Independent Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Aty discussed issues related to the country’s water resources. The discussion covered the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and government efforts to rationalize water usage with conservationist representatives, members of Parliament, and the Coordination of Youth Parties and Politicians on …
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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 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall agreed on coordinating their two countries’ positions on the Ethiopian ‘Renaissance Dam’ issue and on building stronger economic ties between Cairo and Dakar in a meeting in Paris on Wednesday. “We have confidence that the second filling …
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Menna Alaa al-Din – Ahram Online “Egypt will impose immediate fines on farmers growing the water-intensive rice crops illegally. This comes amid fears that a second planned filling of the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in July will diminish Cairo’s water share”, according to the Ministry of Irrigation and …
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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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