Egypt issues warning over Ethiopia dam
Cairo - Egypt's foreign minister, vowing not to give up “a single drop of water from the Nile”, said on Sunday that he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun building in...
View ArticleMursi turns up heat in battle against Ethiopian dam on Nile
Egypt did not want war with Ethiopia but would keep "all options open", President Mohammed Mursi said, turning up the heat in a dispute over a giant dam Addis Ababa is building across the Nile. In a...
View ArticleEgypt "war" talk raises Ethiopia Nile dam stakes
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt does not want war with Ethiopia but will keep "all options open", President Mohamed Mursi said on Monday, turning up the heat in a dispute over a giant dam Addis Ababa is...
View ArticleEgypt 'war' talk raises Nile dam stakes
Egypt does not want war with Ethiopia but will keep "all options open", President Mohamed Mursi said on Monday (Tuesday, NZT), turning up the heat in a dispute over a giant dam Addis Ababa is building...
View ArticleEthiopia ratifies River Nile treaty
Share Twitter Ghana News plugins View Comments Ethiopia says the dam project will not affect countries downstreamEthiopia's parliament has ratified a treaty intended to replace colonial-era agreements...
View ArticleEgypt fears grow as Ethiopia builds giant Nile dam
Ethiopia's construction of Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on the world's longest river threatens to affect flows of water to Nile-dependent, water-starved Egypt, where there is growing outrage,...
View ArticleDrums starting to beat along Nile
All students of geopolitics are familiar with the legend that Egypt has privately warned all the governments upstream on the Nile that it will start bombing if they build dams on the river without its...
View Article>Fear in Egypt as Ethiopia builds giant dam on Nile
CAIRO (AP) — Ethiopia's construction of Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on the world's longest river threatens to affect flows of water to Nile-dependent, water-starved Egypt, where there is...
View ArticleEthiopia ratifies Nile treaty
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia's Parliament unanimously ratified a treaty on Thursday that strips Egypt of its right to the lion's share of the Nile river waters, raising the political temperature in a...
View ArticleEthiopia ratifies Nile treaty in snub to Egypt
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament unanimously ratified on Thursday a treaty that strips Egypt of its right to the lion's share of the Nile river waters, raising the political temperature...
View ArticleEgypt talks war over Nile dam
SINCE becoming Egypt's President a year ago, Mohammed Morsi has been so awash with problems - economic, political, constitutional - that he has paid scant attention to the biggest problem of all...
View ArticleFile from Wikileaks reveals Egyptian plans to attack Ethiopian dam
LONDON – Egyptian authorities fearful of a monopoly on Nile waters received agreement from Khartoum to build an airbase in Sudan, to launch attacks on Ethiopian damming facilities, claims the anonymous...
View ArticleEthiopia plays down dam fears
Related articles Cloud over talks on Ethiopia’s Nile dam Ethiopia signs Nile accord despite threats ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan agreed to conduct further studies on what effect a hydropower...
View ArticleMother of all riparian battles simmers over the Nile (Comment)
Tweet As one spends a quiet evening on a quaint beach of the White Nile, it is no giveaway that the longest river on the planet is simmering. The slugfest involves the 11 riparian states, touched by...
View ArticleWill Ethiopia's 'grand' new dam steal Nile waters from Egypt?
Egypt is newly worried about a huge Ethiopian dam now under construction on the Nile’s main tributary – a concern that reflects arid Egypt’s overwhelming reliance on the world's longest river. Egypt...
View ArticleEgypt and Ethiopia to review Nile river dam
Ethiopia and Egypt have agreed to review the impact of a planned $4.8bn Nile river dam, which Addis Ababa announced in March, in a bid to open a "new chapter" in once-strained relations. Ethiopian...
View ArticleEgypt, Ethiopia Square Off Over New Nile River Dam
David Arnold Egypt and Ethiopia are doing their best to lower tensions after weeks of increasingly heated rhetoric over a giant Ethiopian dam project that Cairo believes will reduce the flow of water...
View ArticleA bend in the river
The broad shouldered hills echoed a low rumble as explosives tore through the grooved walls of a canyon carved by the torrential flow of the most important tributary of Africa’s greatest river. Men in...
View ArticleNile Power Shifts Away From Egypt
David Arnold Before the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi was ousted as president earlier this month, his government was planning to catch up on overdue negotiations with nine upstream neighbors in...
View ArticleEgypt No Longer Owns the Nile
Mohammed Morsi, then Egypt’s president, said in June “Egypt is a gift of the Nile, and the Nile is a gift of Egypt,” and promised that he was ruling no options out concerning that river’s future. This...
View ArticleEthiopia ratifies River Nile treaty amid Egypt tension
Ethiopia's parliament has ratified a treaty intended to replace colonial-era agreements that gave Egypt and Sudan the biggest share of the Nile's water. The move comes amid growing tensions with Egypt...
View ArticleEgypt and Ethiopia vow to defuse Blue Nile dam row
Ethiopia and Egypt have agreed to hold further talks to quell tensions over the building of a new dam on the Blue Nile, their foreign ministers say. Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom said the two nations have...
View ArticleWhy a 'water war' over the Nile River won't happen
Is northeastern Africa heading for a bloody "water war" between its two most important countries, Egypt and Ethiopia? Judging by the rhetoric of the past two weeks, one could be forgiven for thinking...
View ArticleNext on Egypt's to-do: Ethiopia and the Nile
Play a game of word association almost anywhere in the world, and if you try the word "Nile", the answer will be "Egypt". Herodotus famously said the country was a gift of the fabled river, and it's no...
View ArticleMorsi’s violent threats to Ethiopia go unnoticed
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's parliament ratified a controversial treaty Thursday ensuring its access to Nile water resources, amid bitter arguments with Egypt trigged by an Ethiopian dam project. The deal...
View ArticleNile dam dispute ‘not yet military’
CAIRO/ADDIS ABABA - Egypt's armed forces are not yet involved in a dispute with Ethiopia over a giant dam on the Nile, a spokesman for the general staff said on Wednesday, playing down bellicose...
View ArticleRow Over Water-Sharing as Nile Countries Meet
Mugume Davis Rwakaringi JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — A rift continued Thursday between Egypt and Ethiopia over a plan by Addis Ababa to build a huge dam on one of the tributaries of the River Nile, while an...
View ArticleFear in Egypt as Ethiopia builds giant dam on Nile
CAIRO — Ethiopia's construction of Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on the world's longest river threatens to affect flows of water to Nile-dependent, water-starved Egypt, where there is growing...
View ArticleEgypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over the Nile River
Keith Johnson / Foreign PolicyWASHINGTON—Egypt’s musical-chairs government faces enough challenges. So why is a construction project almost 1,800 miles from Cairo provoking fears over Egypt’s national...
View ArticleEthiopia expects Egypt talks over Nile dam, says won't back down
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is expected to travel to Addis Ababa on Sunday for talks on a giant dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile, as the countries seek a...
View Article'No Nile, no Egypt', Cairo warns over Ethiopia dam
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign minister, vowing not to give up "a single drop of water from the Nile", said on Sunday he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun...
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