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Egypt-Ethiopia relations • 6 min read

Source: Project manager faced threats from Ethiopian government before death ruled as suicide by police

Police announced that Simegnew Bekele, the dam’s manager and face of the project, took his own life

10 September 2018

Egypt-Ethiopia relations • 6 min read

Effects of GERD construction delay, Red Sea security headline ‘positive’ talks in Addis Ababa

Asmahan Soliman | "Positive" Egypt-Ethiopia talks probed delays in GERD's construction and cooperation in the Red Sea

31 August 2018

Renaissance Dam • 11 min read

Egypt, Ethiopia approach negotiations over filling Renaissance Dam reservoir

Asmahan Soliman | A legal agreement on filling the dam’s reservoir may be on the horizon following a 3-day visit

21 June 2018

Egypt-Ethiopia relations • 6 min read

Diplomatic source: ‘Prompt’ pardons for 32 Ethiopian nationals sign of ‘growing strategic relationship’ with Egypt

Hadeer El-Mahdawy | While in Cairo for GERD talks, the Ethiopian PM requested that Egypt pardon 32 Ethiopians detainees

11 June 2018

Renaissance Dam • 8 min read

Renaissance Dam discussions in Sudan expected to produce shared initial understanding

Asmahan Soliman | As negotiations begin, officials are hopeful that agreements will be reached between the 3 countries

4 April 2018

Egypt-Sudan border • 21 min read

Egypt and Sudan: Diplomatic pacification, unresolved affairs

Asmahan Soliman and Hossam Bahgat | Ambassadors to both countries return to their posts on the same day

8 March 2018

Renaissance Dam • 10 min read

Sisi expresses ‘grave concern’ at close of Ethiopian-Egyptian summit

Asmahan Soliman | He said it is “necessary to work as soon as possible” to resume the required technical studies

18 January 2018

Egypt-Ethiopia relations • 10 min read

Stalling negotiations on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam

Asmahan Soliman | Persisting issues curb progress in negotiations between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Renaissance Dam

31 December 2017

Egypt-Sudan relations • 9 min read

Tensions with Sudan continue as Egypt’s foreign minister visits Khartoum

Asmahan Soliman | The Renaissance Dam and the Halayeb Triangle highlight the tensions between the two countries

2 August 2017

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Opinion

Heba El-Sherif

Media spotlight: Meddling with the Nile is a red line

Media pundits still debate the dam's validity, ignoring wider issues of water scarcity

1 December 2017

Sharif S Elmusa

Sharing the Nile waters according to needs

There may not be enough water for everybody to get all they want from the Nile’s waters, but sharing

30 August 2014

Sharif S Elmusa

Egypt’s Nile Blues

Ethiopia is forging ahead with the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the

9 June 2014

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News

Ahmed Abu Zeid • 4 min read

FM spokesperson: Ethiopian PM’s rejection of World Bank mediation in Renaissance Dam negotiations ‘taken out of context’

22 January 2018

Egypt-Sudan relations • 4 min read

Government official: Sudan rejects Egypt’s Halayeb Triangle offer

1 June 2017

Egypt-Sudan relations • 5 min read

Egypt bans 2 Sudanese journalists from entering the country

25 April 2017

Nile water crisis • 6 min read

Report: Nile Delta’s increasing salinity and rising sea levels may make Egypt uninhabitable by 2100

16 March 2017

Renaissance Dam • 4 min read

Ethiopia increases capacity of Nile dam, causing alarm in Egypt

28 February 2017

Renaissance Dam • 4 min read

Ethiopia cancels dam meeting

5 September 2016

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