Posts Tagged ‘Nile treaty’

Ethiopia invites Egypt and Sudan to discuss on Nile dam

November 13 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

(ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia has officially invited Egypt and Sudan for talks over a controversial dam project, which the horn of Africa country intends to build on the Blue Nile river. The invitation on Tuesday comes few weeks after Sudan has agreed to join Ethiopia and Egypt for the establishment of a tripartite technical committee that will... Read more

Sudan agrees to tripartite committee over Ethiopia’s Nile dam

October 26 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Sudan, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

(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 downstream countries like itself and Egypt. The committee will consult international and local experts drawn from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. It will assess the potential impact... Read more

Egypt’s New Democrats Ready to Defend Nile

September 30 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Politics, Sudan, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

If Egypt and Sudan join the Nile water partnership, the decisions the basin makes will be difficult, and will require new relationships among those who feed Lake Nasser and those who take from it. In the beginning, Egypt was the Nile. That could now change, as Egypt, Sudan and the countries that supply the Nile’s waters face new... Read more

Water under the bridge over the Nile (Video) Egypt and Ethiopia on Nile Dam

September 19 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized, Video Tags: , , , , , , ,

Can Ethiopia and Egypt reach a deal that will provide 160 million people living along the Nile with sufficient water? Egypt and Ethiopia are looking to put past disputes over the use of the water from the River Nile behind them. Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian prime minister, has visited Cairo for the first time and together with his Egyptian counterpart, Essam... Read more

Ethiopia to Assess Impact of Nile Dam with New Egypt

September 19 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

On Saturday, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf agreed with his Ethiopian counterpart to set up a team of technical experts to assess the impact of the $4.8-billion Dam being built in Ethiopia. The dam will be one of two built along Ethiopia’s side of the Nile River as part of a plan to produce 20,000 megawatts of power... Read more

Ethiopia says plans to build two more Nile dams

September 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

(Reuters) – Ethiopia has announced plans to construct two dams along its share of the Nile, six months after embarking on a 5,250 MW power plant that rankled Egypt over concerns it might affect the flow of the river. The Horn of Africa nation aims to produce 20,000 megawatts (MW) of power within the next 10 years,... Read more

Sudan, Egypt Review Ethiopian Proposal To Study Impact Of Its Blue Nile Dam Project

May 25 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , ,

KHARTOUM, (BERNAMA-NNN-SUNA) – Sudan and Egypt are reviewing an Ethiopian proposal to set up a joint technical tripartite committee to study the technical issues and impact of Ethiopia’s Millennium Dam, which is under construction on the Blue Nile River some 40 km east of Sudan in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopa. This came about when the ministers of Irrigation and Water... Read more

Egypt welcomes Nile Dam construction only if it’s not affecting their Quota

May 5 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Egypt, Ethiopia, Featured, Middle East, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , ,

According to the Egyptian weekly online Al-Ahram a delegation of Egypt visited Ethiopian last week successfully delivered a message that they welcome any construction of Dam only if it is not affecting their water Quota and in the mean time managed to froze a signing of the Nile Basin agreement until Egypt elects a new parliament and president. Meles Zenawi and... Read more

Ethiopia welcomes dialogue with Egypt over Nile, but No to hydro-dam project

May 3 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Ethiopia postpones signing Nile Basin agreement; Egypt welcomes decision Cairo -Forty-seven members of an Egyptian delegation have arrived in Addis Ababa to mend relations between the two countries after months-long fallout over the sharing of the Nile River waters. The delegation consists of three presidential hopefuls and some of the best known Egyptian opposition leaders as well as representatives of young people... Read more

Eritrea to support Egypt on Nile River water share

April 22 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Eritrea, Ethiopia, Middle East, News, Nile, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

According to Eritrean ministry of information in Asmara, Eritrean Ambassador to Egypt, Mr. Osman Mohammed Omar had talks yesterday with the Egyptian Prime Minister, Dr. Esam Sharaf. In the meeting, the Ambassador conveyed the Eritrean people’s message of congratulation to the Egyptian people in connection with the victory of the January 25 Revolution. He also expressed Eritrea’s readiness to work jointly with... Read more

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