Ahram Online The Sudanese authorities reported a failed coup attempt on Tuesday plotted by a group in the military. The attempt had failed, and the military command remained in control of the country. “All is under control. The revolution is victorious”, said Mohammed al-Fiky Suliman, a member of the ruling …
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Ahram Online Egypt has welcomed a statement issued on Wednesday by the UN Security Council calling to resume negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). “The UNSC has urged observers of previous GERD negotiations under the African Union’s sponsorship, and any other observers to be involved in future dam …
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Egypt Independent Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok said on Wednesday, “a solution to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will soon be reached within the framework of international law”. Hamdok praised an Algerian initiative to solve the dam crisis. Algeria had called for ‘a direct meeting between Egypt, Sudan and …
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Egypt Independent The US embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sent a letter, Wednesday, to Ethiopia stressing the need to resolve the crisis. The letter follows Ethiopia’s recent announcement on completing the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir. “US Secretary of State Antony Blinken …
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Dina Ezzat – Ahram Online The UN Security Council session held on Thursday, resulted in a call on Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to settle the dispute over the GERD under the auspices of the African Union “in good faith and away from any unilateral action”. “After a year of abortive …
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Ahram Online The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convened in New York on Thursday to discuss the latest developments on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) at the request of Egypt and Sudan. The session followed the failure of talks between the two downstream countries and Ethiopia. Negotiations were focused …
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Ahmed Morsy – Ahram Online “The United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) vote on the draft resolution Tunisia submitted on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could be delayed until next week”, diplomatic sources in New York told Ahram Online on Wednesday. “Extending the vote for a week will give Egypt …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed to New York, Sunday, to participate in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GRED). The UNSC meeting comes in response to requests from Egypt and Sudan. “Shoukry will hold a series of intensive meetings with his …
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Menna Alaa al-Din – Ahram Online “The Arab League is keen on ensuring that Egypt and Sudan resorting to the UN Security Council over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue does not turn into an Arab- African dispute”, Arab League representative to the UN, Maged Abdel-Fattah, said on Friday. …
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Ahram Online Tunisia’s Foreign Minister, Othman Jerandi, and the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, discussed, on Tuesday, the possibility of adding the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to the July agenda of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The two officials were at the meeting …
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