Latest in Tag: GERD Highlight
Latest in Tag: GERD

GERD technical committee resumes meetings in Addis Ababa
Meeting gathers ministers of foreign affairs, water, intelligence chiefs of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia

18th GERD technical committee meeting kicks off Saturday
Egypt calls for a new round of talks to speed up pace of negotiations

Egyptian government discusses next steps regarding GERD
The higher committee on Nile waters, headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, held a meeting on Tuesday to review outcomes of a meeting in Khartoum and discuss next steps regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Last week, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry headed to Khartoum to attend a meeting with Sudanese and Ethiopian …

Shoukry heads to Sudan to discuss stalled technical studies of GERD
9th meeting to be held between Egyptian, Sudanese, Ethiopian officials for negotiations over GERD

Sudan meetings will iron out GERD differences: Ethiopian ambassador
Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt Taye Atske-Selassie said that the nine-party ministerial meetings which began in Sudan on Wednesday will iron out the differences between Sudan, Egypt, and his country regarding the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Sudan meetings will be held over two days with the participation of ministers of water resources …

Shoukry heads to Khartoum for GERD meeting with Ethiopian, Sudanese officials
Meeting set to be attended by ministers of foreign affairs, waters, chiefs of intelligences

Sudan ministerial meeting on GERD begins Wednesday
Water, foreign ministers, intelligence officials will participate

Shoukry discusses bilateral relations, GERD with Kenyan counterpart
Foreign minister expressed Egypt’s aspiration to receive Kenyan president at earliest opportunity

Sudan delays tripartite ministerial meeting on GERD following Ethiopian request
Meeting was set to be held on 24 January in Khartoum

Al-Sisi announces reaching agreement with Sudan, Ethiopia on GERD
No mediators in negotiations on dam until now, says Shoukry

Egypt concerned over Ethiopian PM statements on WB arbitration in GERD dispute
Statements come few days following Desalegn’s return to Ethiopia after short visit to Egypt

Crisis over the Nile
Nile River is source of development, not conflict, says Al-Sisi

Egypt demands World Bank join GERD negotiations
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Tuesday, during his visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Minister of Foreign Affairs Workneh Gebeyehu, where he followed up on the cooperation between the two countries following the latest round of tripartite meetings between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). According …

Shoukry discusses resuming negotiations on GERD in Addis Ababa
Egypt’s minister of water resources previously announced failure of negotiations of TNCRD

Shokry to visit Ethiopia next week to continue GERD negotiations
Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs highlights importance of GERD case, Sudan’s bias towards Ethiopia against Egypt

Desalegn visit raises controversy about Ethiopia’s intentions on GERD
Egypt has nothing against building dams on Nile, but opposes lack of coordination with Nile Basin countries if nation decides to build one, says Egyptian minister of irrigation

2018 will be year of development for Egyptian foreign diplomacy and international relations: Al-Orabi
Amid the ongoing conflicts that are occupying world news, Egypt’s foreign policy has been challenged with several crises such as the military conflicts in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the volatile political situations in Lebanon, Sudan, Palestine, and sub-Saharan Africa, besides the disputes with Ethiopia over the GERD. The foreign policy of …

GERD has no significant impact on downstream countries: Ethiopian water minister
The dam is being constructed around-the-clock, says Bekele

A message on the Nile
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) topic is back to remind us of, and affirm, what we had said five years ago, which is basically that the core problem is neither governed by emotion nor ministerial aids with a little help from diplomacy, but it is governed by political rules, international law, and international conventions. …

Sea level rise, GERD put Egypt’s Nile Delta at risk of submergence: GSA
The Nile flow currently barely supplies 97% of Egypt’s present water needs with only 660 cubic metres per person.

No one can touch Egypt’s water: Al-Sisi on GERD
President asserted that talks with Sudan and Ethiopia made clear that there should not be a decrease Egypt’s water share

Ministry of Irrigation reaffirms Ethiopia has not begun filling GERD
Egypt fears the dam will affect its historic Nile water share of 55bn square metres

Ethiopia asserts commitment to coordinate with Egypt through GERD negotiations
Ethiopia parliamentary speaker meets with an Egyptian delegation following news of preparations to store water in the GERD

Meetings of Nile basin countries regarding Entebbe agreement resume
Negotiations over Egypt’s returning to Nile Basin Initiative started two years ago

Egypt calls for tripartite meeting with Ethiopia, Sudan
Sameh Shoukry discussed bilateral relations with newly appointed Ethiopian foreign minister

Saudi official reported visit to GERD could deepen tensions with Egypt
Despite mounting tensions, Egyptian and Saudi officials insist bilateral relations have not been strained

Sudan’s irrigation minister arrives in Cairo for GERD talks
Moataz Moussa is Sudan’s envoy to head the Arab Water Council Session

Egyptian agriculture crisis worsens, mainly due to lack of water
Government’s reclamation projects facing doubts

Egypt signs final contracts for GERD consultation offices, left with ambiguous consequences
Ethiopia will have completed the construction of the Renaissance Dam by the time the results of the studies are ready

Irrigation Minister heads to Sudan to sign contracts for GERD consultation offices
The studies will examine how the dam will impact Egypt’s water share, but results will be released in a year, by which time Ethiopia will have completed construction of the dam