By Aya Nader, EGYPT rejects the current Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s (GERD) high storage capacity, as studies showed it will affect its national water security, reported state-owned Middle East News Agency (MENA) Sunday. The dam’s storage capacity reaches 74bn cubic meters. Calling such capacity “unjustified and technically unacceptable”, Egypt asked Ethiopia to reduce it to […]
Continue Reading“Egypt will not go to Ethiopia unless Addis Ababa is willing to return to negotiations to resolve points of contention on the Renaissance Dam.” – Irrigation Minister By Al-Masry Al-Youm, Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Mohamed Abdel Muttalib criticized what he called Ethiopia’s refusal to budge on key issues during the three-party negotiations of the […]
Continue ReadingBy Nader Noureddine, Ethiopia has been having trouble finding finance for its Renaissance Dam. The technologically hazardous and politically incendiary project has failed to whet the appetites of investors though this did not seem to bother the Ethiopian delegation to recent talks.
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, An Eritrean government delegation led by Foreign Minister Osman Saleh yesterday delivered President Isaias Afwerki’s message to President Mohammed Moursi of the Republic of Egypt. In the course of his three-day visit to Egypt, Minister Osman held talks with his counterpart Mohamed Kamil Amr on enhancing economic, cultural, political and social relations between the […]
Continue ReadingBy Prof. Alemayehu G Mariam, Late last month, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Sultan fired a shot across the bow from the Arab Water Council in Cairo to let the regime in Ethiopia know that his country takes a dim view of the “Grand Renaissance Dam” under “construction” on the Blue Nile (Abbay) […]
Continue ReadingBy Sudan Tribune, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister and Inspector General for Military Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Khalid Bin Sultan, in unusual rebuke, unleashed a barrage of attack against Ethiopia saying that the Horn of Africa nation is posing a threat to the Nile water rights of Egypt and Sudan. The massive $4.8 billion […]
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