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- Wednesday 27 February 2013
February 26, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – A senior Saudi Arabian official unleashed a barrage of attacks against Ethiopia saying that the Horn of Africa nation is posing a threat to the Nile water rights of Egypt and Sudan. Saudi deputy defence (...)
- Friday 19 April 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 18, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Eritrean government said this week that it supports Egypt’s stance over a colonial-era treaty that granted Egypt a right to utilise the lions share of Nile river’s water resources. (...)
- Tuesday 4 September 2012
By Toby Collins
September 3, 2012 (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 (...)
- Saturday 2 March 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 1, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian government expressed outrage over remarks made by Saudi Arabia’s deputy defense minister, who accused the Horn of Africa nation of posing a national security threat to (...)
- Monday 22 April 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 21, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday removed the Kingdom’s deputy defense minister who recently made hostile remarks over Ethiopia’s massive dam project being built on the Blue Nile River only 30km (...)
- Sunday 17 March 2013
March 16, 2013 (ENTEBBE/JUBA) – South Sudan is among countries to benefit from a $15.3m project, aimed at facilitating cooperative water resource management and development as part of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).
The NBI is a (...)
- Sunday 2 December 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
December 1, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The international panel of experts asked by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to assess the impact of Ethiopia’s controversial Nile dam project has continued its study despite fresh political (...)
- Wednesday 26 October 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
October 25, 2011 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan has agreed to set up tripartite technical committee to look into concerns over Ethiopia’s Millennium dam project on the Blue Nile water could negatively affect the water share of (...)
- Tuesday 25 September 2012
September 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – An Egyptian official has emphatically denied the veracity of allegations that his country had reached an agreement with neighbouring Sudan to use its territories as a launchpad for potential attacks on (...)
- Tuesday 12 February 2013
February 11, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of environment and forestry, Hassan Abdel-Gadir Hilal, said that the suspected Israeli airstrike on a military complex near the capital last year left behind serious environmental (...)
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