Egypt Today “As for drought durations, the water flowing into the reservoir will remain in the dam”, the General Manager of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Kifle Horo, told Al Arabiyah on Monday. Horo explained, “during heavy rains, water would overflow in the direction of the two downstream countries. …
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Ahram Online On Friday, Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Rania al-Mashat and Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Marwan Abdullah al-Ghanem agreed to study the feasibility a railway connection between Egypt and Sudan. Al-Mashat signed the agreement held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at the joint …
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Egypt Today Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Chairman of the Sudan Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan discussed issues of mutual concern in a meeting in Cairo on Wednesday. Egypt reaffirmed its commitment to support Sudan via assistance packages, logistic and humanitarian aid. Cairo vowed to continue its technical …
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Ahmed Kotb – Ahram Online “The EU is ready to engage more to help reach a satisfactory agreement for all parties involved in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis”, European Union Special Representative to the Horn of Africa Annette Weber said on Tuesday. “Building trust between Egypt, Sudan and …
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Egypt Independent The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed Ethiopia’s unilateral operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), in a reaction to an Ethiopian announcement on Sunday. “In response to the Ethiopian announcement on Sunday of unilaterally starting the operation of GERD, after the previous unilateral start of the …
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Ahram Online Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called on Egypt and Sudan to “nurture the narrative towards building peace, cooperation and mutual coexistence” of the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). His remarks were published on his official Twitter account on Thursday. “GERD was constructed through the earnest contribution of …
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Egypt Independent “Ethiopia plans to clear 17,000 hectares (40,000 acres) of forests around the Renaissance Dam next month, in preparation for a new filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)”, a statement announced on Thursday. The third filling announcement was made at a meeting between Ethiopian Minister of Irrigation …
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Ahram Online Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok announced his resignation in a televised speech on Sunday. “In view of the fragmentation of the political forces and conflicts between the military and civilian components of the transition… despite everything which has been done to reach a consensus… it has not happened”, he said. “Sudan …
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Amr Kandil – Ahram Online “The Supreme Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) reject any act or measure that harms the Egyptian and Sudanese rights in the River Nile”, said the final communique at the end of the 42ndmeeting of the GCC summit held in Riyadh on Tuesday. Egypt …
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Ahram Online Thousands of Protests rejecting the Sudanese military rule and the deal to reinstate Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok continued their rallies in the capital Khartoum and the cities of Omdurman, Kassala, Sennar and Port Sudan on Monday. There were no immediate reports of violence against demostrators, unlike past rounds …
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