Menna Alaa el-Din – Ahram Online Sudan has announced that it will boycott the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations scheduled for tomorrow Monday, over Ethiopia’s non-commitment to the talks’ agenda, Al-Arabiya TV reported on Sunday. A Sudanese government source said, “Khartoum refuses to return to the African Union …
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Egypt Today “Egypt sent a letter to South Africa, chair the African Union (AU), Egypt expressed its total rejection to Ethiopia unilateral acts on the filling and the operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam”, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation statement on Wednesday. The letter included …
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Zeinab el-Gundy – Ahram Online Sudan said it may withdraw from the current round of talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Tuesday, if Ethiopia insists on linking a long-term agreement on the filling and operating of the dam to creating a convention on the use of the …
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Zeinab el-Gundy – Ahram Online Egypt refused Ethiopia’s unilateral initial filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), during the second round of African Union (AU)-brokered talks on Monday. Officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have agreed that the legal and technical committees will discuss points of contention between 4 …
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Egypt Today A new round of negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) resumed on Monday. The refreshed negotiations has been attended by representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, observers from the United States, the European Union and the African Union Commission (AUC). The three countries are seeking to reach …
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Egypt Today Egypt has expressed, on Sunday, its solidarity with Sudan after the Boot Dam collapsed and destroyed hundreds of houses in the country’s South-Eastern region. “Egypt stands by her brothers in Sudan to counter the ramifications of this accident, on the basis of the brotherly ties between the people …
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Ahram Online Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said, “Egypt is currently in a possibly long battle of negotiations on the filling and operation of the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)” on Tuesday. During the inauguration of a major industrial complex in the Sharqiya governorate on Tuesday, Sisi said “we currently …
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Egypt Today Spokesperson of the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohammed Sebaei said, on Saturday, “the first filling of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) does not harm Egypt’s share of the Nile Waters”. Sebaei added “the water reserve of the High Dam’s lake covers the Egyptian needs of …
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Egypt Today The African Union (AU) called on Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Friday, to urgently finalize a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Renaissance Dam, with the support of African Union experts and observers. The AU said that the latest GERD negotiations session on Tuesday reflected …
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Egypt Today Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed congratulated Ethiopians on completing the first phase of the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Wednesday. Ahmed, justified the filling of the Renaissance Dam as “due to the heavy rainfall season”. Earlier, Sudanese Minister of Irrigation Yasser Abbas said, “it …
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