Ethiopia: Diversion Doesn’t Affect Water Flow of Nile – EEPCo
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) says the river diversion of Abay/Nile in Ethiopia to make way for construction of the dam in the river bed doesn’t in any way reduce the amount of water...
View ArticleEgypt: Mursi to Discuss Ethiopian Dam With Political Forces
Photo: Marc Veraart/Flickr Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi will convene on Monday with heads of political parties to discuss a report by the tripartite technical committee on Ethiopia’s Renaisance...
View ArticleEthiopia: International Panel of Experts On Renaissance Dam Releases Report
The Ministry of Water and Energy disclosed on Saturday that the International Panel of Experts which has been investigating the efficacy of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam presented its final...
View ArticleEgypt: Addis Ababa – Egypt Shouldn’t Worry About Nile Dam
Ethiopia says there is no reason for Egypt to worry about the massive hydroelectric dam it is building on the Blue Nile, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile River. Ethiopia began diverting the...
View ArticleEgypt: Confidential "National Security" Dialogue Goes Viral in Egypt
Once upon a time a confidential dialogue between President Mohamed Mursi and politicians on a national security issue was aired live without prior notice to the participants or the public. On Monday,...
View ArticleEthiopia: No Need for Egypt to Worry About the Renaissance Dam – Minister
Ethiopia’s Minister for Water and Energy, Alemayehu Tegenu, has repeated that there is no reason for Egypt to worry about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Minister says construction of...
View ArticleEgypt: Politicians Propose Ways to Sabotage Ethiopian Dam Project
Egyptian politicians have proposed ways to sabotage an Ethiopian dam project in talks that were televised live without the politicians’ knowledge. An aide to Egypt’s president apologized for failing...
View ArticleAfrica: New Technologies for Monitoring Water Resources
In Tigray, northern Ethiopia, the ICRC is preparing for droughts by using a geographic information system to monitor water points. The track passes a wind generator before plunging into a brown...
View ArticleEgypt: Egypt to Form National Council for Water Security
The Egyptian presidency is going to form a national council for water security, reported a local newspaper on Wednesday. The council will include a number of political figures and representatives from...
View ArticleEthiopia: Foreign Policy Remains Firm On Promoting Mutual Benefit and...
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Spokesperson yesterday (June 5th) underlined that Ethiopia has been consistent in its policy of promoting a foreign policy based on mutual respect and...
View ArticleEgypt: U.S. Spokesman Encourages Cooperation Between Nation and Ethiopia
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that the White House wishes that Egypt and Ethiopia would work together to make the effects of a dam that Ethiopia plans to erect on the...
View ArticleEgypt: Govt Seeks Win-Win Relations With Egypt
The Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a press release that the comments of Egyptians politicians these past days have been unhelpful to the win-win relations Ethiopia and Egypt deserves to...
View ArticleEgypt: Foreign Affairs Minister to Visit Ethiopia
Arrangements are underway for the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Kamel Amr, to visit Ethiopia in the upcoming days, in order to discuss the most recent developments in the Nile waters...
View ArticleAfrica: There Will Be No Water War in the Nile Basin
The comedy started last Monday when the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi invited leading politicians to discuss the report of a tri-partite Egypt-Ethiopia-Sudan commission. The commission had recently...
View ArticleEthiopia: Hailemariam – Egypt Goes to War Over Nile Only If Leaders Go Mad
The construction of the Renaissance Dam is a major undertaking of Ethiopia to lead the country the way out of poverty and no one has the power to halt the construction project, Prime Minister...
View ArticleEthiopia: Museveni – Africa Won’t Let Egyptians Bully Ethiopia
President Yoweri Museveni has sternly warned the Egyptian “government and other groups” against making “chauvinist and irrational statements” in the wake of Ethiopia’s decision to construct a...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Govt Urges Egypt, Ethiopia to Cooperate On Nile
The construction of Ethiopia’s dam on the Blue Nile River will benefit current and future generations of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, Pagan Amum, Chief Negotiator of South Sudan, has said. The...
View ArticleEgypt: War of Words Between Egypt and Ethiopia Over Dam Project
The row between Egypt and Ethiopia over water from the River Nile goes back many years. Now it is escalating as Ethiopia forges ahead with the construction of a huge dam. But there is more to the...
View ArticleEgypt: Sudan Envoy in Cairo Calls for Cooperation Over Dam Crisis
Sudanese Ambassador to Cairo Kamal Hassan Aly said on Saturday that the spirit of cooperation between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia may lead to an end to the crisis over a dam that Ethiopia plans to build...
View ArticleEgypt: Mursi Tells EU Representative Nation Will Not Compromise Water Security
Egypt will not compromise its water safety, President Mohamed Mursi told European Union representative Catherine Ashton on Wednesday. Commenting on Ethiopia’s dam project, the president said Egypt...
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