Ethiopia and Egypt’s Stalemate: What’s the Dam Problem?

BY YOHANNES GEDAMU | THE GLOBE POST The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) – a huge hydro dam on the Nile River that is set to become Africa’s largest – is a national project fully financed by the Ethiopian people and government. From teachers and healthcare workers to the country’s poor farmers, an overwhelming majority […]

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Egypt Warns Ethiopia Nile Dam Dispute ‘Life or Death’

“No one can touch Egypt’s share of water” – President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi. BY SAMY MAGDY | ABC NEWS Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, for the second time in as many days, delivered on Saturday a stern warning to Ethiopia over a dam it is building after the two countries along with Sudan failed to approve a […]

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Is Egypt-Sudan Border Dispute New Thorn in Renaissance Dam Negotiations?

By Walaa Hussein | for Al-Monitor, There are fears that the dispute over Halayeb and Shalateen, a small border region claimed by Cairo and Khartoum, will cast its shadow over Egyptian-Sudanese coordination on the negotiations over the Renaissance Dam between the two countries and Ethiopia. On April 18, state-owned channel Ethiopian TV interviewed Sudanese President […]

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Can the U.S. Mediate Egypt and Ethiopia? Lessons from the Ethiopia – Eritrea Stalemate

By Fikrejesus Amahazion,, EARLIER this week, U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, questioned several expert witnesses at a hearing entitled “Water Sharing Conflicts and the Threat to International Peace.”[i] While the primary focus of the hearing was on the ongoing Ethiopia-Egypt Nile dispute, an extremely interesting […]

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