Tag: Al Sisi
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Egypt-Ethiopia: The Nile Water Crisis Resurfaces Again
The embattled Egyptian president AlSisi has resuscitated the Nile water crisis with Ethiopia. The differences over Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam (GERD) that started in 2011, has sometimes bubbled and in other times erupted to the surface. When it did, it was often downplayed by occasional diplomatic niceties or escalated through media forays. But since the summer
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The Abiy and Isaias Relation Is Being Tested
Two weeks ago the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) aborted negotiations with the Sudanese alliance, known as the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), on Monday, June 3, 2019, the TMC violently dispersed the demonstrators, killing over a hundred people and wounding dozens more. The killings coincided with the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square
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Eritrean Ambassador: The USA and Gulf States Want to “Make Egypt Thirsty”
(Archive of September 18, 2017. 13:55 Editor) On Thursday, September 7, 2017, Al Masri Al Youm published an interview it conducted with the Eritrean ruling party ambassador in Cairo. Here we present the English version of the Arabic original, which was translated by the Awatestaff. The Ambassador says, “some Gulf States” but given the context