Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt Mahmoud Dirir said on Thursday that the various projects his country is building on the Nile will not be detrimental to the interests of Egypt and Sudan. Dirir made the comments in a meeting with Egyptian Irrigation and (...)
Irrigation Minister Hussein al-Atfy on Thursday said Egypt is awaiting the Ethiopian government's reply to its request for technical and environmental studies of the Great Millennium Dam. Ethiopia is building the dam on its borders with Sudan.
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Egypt and Sudan have agreed to hold extensive negotiations with the upstream countries in the Nile Basin, with a view to signing a new cooperative agreement on Nile water quotas.
The two countries also said they would not sign the Nile Basin (...)
At a Monday cabinet meeting, President Hosni Mubarak instructed the government to devise "transparent and easy" rules for the sale and purchase of state-owned land.
According to Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid, the president also (...)
Al-Masry Al-Youm has learned that Egypt and Libya are discussing a proposal by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to mediate in the current Nile water crisis between Egypt and Sudan on the one hand, and upstream Nile Basin states on the other.
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High-ranking sources within the Egyptian government say the newly inaugurated Tana Beles dam in Ethiopia has received financing from both the Italian and Ethiopian governments.
Sources added that neither the head of the Nile Water Sector, Abdel (...)
Ethiopia's announcement on Friday of the inauguration of its new Tana Beles dam aimed to provoke Egypt's anger and lead it to taking swift diplomatic behavior which would turn global public opinion in favor of upstream Nile countries and away from (...)
Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali and Agriculture Minister Amin Abaza plan to form joint committees mandated with inspecting imported meat when disagreements arise over laboratory analysis of samples taken from meat imports. The move is intended to (...)
Water affairs ministers of the Nile Basin countries have agreed to hold a third round of negotiations on the Framework Nile Basin agreement, said Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Nasreddin Allam to Al-Masry Al-Youm.
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