Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Construction work is shown in June 2013, at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, near Assosa in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, near Sudan. The dam will have the capacity to produce 6,000 megawatts of electricity and become the biggest hydroelectric power station in Africa.ELIAS ASMARE, ASSOCIATED PRESS By TOM CAMPBELL / Staff columnist The greatest […]

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The Horn of Africa region is central to the world’s maritime trade. It’s also beginning to fall apart. BY ALEX DE WAAL Back in 2002, Meles Zenawi, then prime minister of Ethiopia, drafted a foreign policy and national security white paper for his country. Before finalizing it, he confided to me a “nightmare scenario” — […]

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From Egypt Daily News Egypt is not worried about GERD, and is using any means available to reach an agreement, says FM Ahmed Abbas   Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said the Ethiopian president affirmed his country’s commitment to the declaration of principles for on the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), previously signed by the […]

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Egypt, Sudan And Ethiopia Sign Agreement On Renaissance Dam In Khartoum - YOUM7 By THE CAIRO POST CAIRO: Sudan and Ethiopia have requested Egypt to convene the 9th round of their tripartite meetings to late October to talk the issue of a consultation firm for evaluating the impact of the under-construction Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), stated […]

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Addis Ababa, 19 August 2015 (WIC) - Egypt’s Minister of Irrigation, Hossam Moghazi, said on Monday the tripartite committee for Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam will meet on 20 and 21 August in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. The committee will discuss the latest developments regarding the undelivered foreign consultancy firms’ report on […]

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Construction workers are seen in a section of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, as it undergoes construction, in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, Ethiopia, March 31, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri) Egyptian-Ethiopian disputes stall Renaissance Dam CAIRO — Studies analyzing the effects of the proposed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam were due six months ago, but the […]

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Addis Ababa, 3 July 2015 (WIC) – The meetings of a tripartite national committee kicked off in Cairo Wednesday 1/7/2015 with all its 12 experts from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia present to probe technical offers made by two international consultancy offices regarding the impact of the Renaissance Dam on the downstream countries. Meetings over three days […]

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Addis Ababa, June 15, 2015 (WIC) - Egyptian irrigation minister Hossam Moghazi said the next tripartite meeting will take place in Cairo on the first of July to discuss the findings of the two European consultancy firms that conducted studies on the impact of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, MENA reported Sunday. Moghazi said that Egypt, Ethiopia […]

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Addis Ababa, 19 June 2015 (WIC) - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn agreed on 10th of June 2015 to form a supreme council for mutual economic and political issues. The meeting was on the margins of the African economic summit in Sharm El-Sheikh. The council is another […]

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Dressed in traditional gleaming white robes and turban, stern-looking Bashir makes his vow on holy Koran. From Middle East Online Unusual message KHARTOUM - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Tuesday he was open to dialogue with Western nations, in an unusually conciliatory message from a leader whose country has suffered from years of […]

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