Tag Archives: Egypt
Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Bahaa ElDin said on Saturday that Egypt does not oppose the establishment of development projects or dams along the Nile River as long as it does not affect water distribution between countries. Bahaa … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Ahram, Bahaa ElDin, Egypt, Ethiopia, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Sudan, Wikileaks
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Abdel Latif El-Menawy Al Arabiya THREE years ago I warned of the water crisis and the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam via a series of articles. I traveled to Ethiopia and Eritrea and met with late Ethiopian premier Meles Zenawi and Eritrean … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Isaias Afewerki, Meles Zenawi, Nile, Sudan
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(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 upstream from Sudan. Speaking at a session of … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Khalid Bin Sultan, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle (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. The Red Sea nation … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mohamed Morsi, Nile, Sudan, Yemane Gebreab
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Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs, Yemane Gebreab, handed a message from President Isaias to President Morsi of Egypt on Monday (April 13th) this week. According to Egypt’s State Information Service, President Morsi, who said … read more »
By Tewelde Stephanos The numbers are staggering. Eritrea, a country of 4 to 5 million, has produced over 250,000 refugees in about 10 years. 35,000 live in a state of limbo in Israel. And these are the lucky ones. Over … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Refugees/Migrants
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Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Nevsun, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By Gianlucca Mezzofiore A new grassroots movement in Eritrea that draws inspiration from the Arab revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia is poised to challenge the one-party authoritarian rule of president Isaias Afewerki, who has been in power for twenty years. … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, Eritrean Diaspora, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Hosni Mubarak, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Sudan
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(Reuters) – One person was killed and more than 80 were wounded in clashes at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in central Cairo on Sunday after a funeral service for four Egyptian Christians killed in sectarian violence with Muslims, state media … read more »
Posted in Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged Cairo, Christian, Copt, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Muslim, Reuters
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By Arab News By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Bassem Youssef, the satirist, appears once a week on the CBC channel in Cairo. But it seems this one time was enough to anger Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi who came to power following … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa, Op-ed
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Arab News, Cairo, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, mubarak, Mursi, Youssef
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Rome conquered ancient Egypt not because the Romans wanted to own the fine temples, pyramids, tombs, irrigation canals and so on and so forth. The Romans were in search of food. The Roman Empire was spreading. It needed to be … read more »
Posted in Article, Congo, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Cyril Aldred, Donald B. Redford, Egypt, Guildford, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Roman, Roman Empire, Rome
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(Medeshi.com)- The main reason could be because Egypt wants to use Somalia as a proxy against Ethiopia for the sake of Nile waters . Egypt had used Somalia as a proxy against Ethiopia for decades. Egypt supplied Somalia with heavy … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Somalia, Somaliland
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Egypt’s U-20 side reached the pinnacle of African glory for the first time since 2003, defeating heavyweights Ghana 5-4 in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw to win the African Championship for the fourth time on Saturday. Midfielder Hossam … read more »
Posted in Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Soccer, Sports, West Africa
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Tagged Egypt, Ghana, Hossam Ghaly, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Nigeria, Oran, Overtime (sports), Saleh Gomaa
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ICER Action Alert: Kidnapped from Barantu in Broad Daylight International Commission on Eritrean Refugees March 26, 2013 Volume 2013, Number 18 The Eritrean people’s predicament is too complex that even the Government whom some of us hold responsible is in … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Press Releases
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Sudan
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The hope of Nigeria’s Flying Eagles defending their African Youth Championship (AYC) title was ended by an organised Egyptian Under-20 team in Ain Temouchent, Algeria on Tuesday. The Junior Pharaohs of Egypt defeated the Flying Eagles 2-0 with ENPPI forward, … read more »
Posted in Egypt, Nigeria, Soccer, Sports
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Tagged African Youth Championship, Aïn Témouchent, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Olarenwaju Kayode, Oran, Stade Ahmed Zabana
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By: Mustafa al-Labbad Translated from As-Safir (Lebanon). In the coming years, Egypt and Ethiopia may be forced to fight a “water war” because Ethiopia’s ambitions contradict Egypt’s historical and legal rights in the Nile waters. Ethiopia can only be deterred … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Somali, Sudan, Uganda
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Tagged Abyei, Aswan Dam, Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, ndepthindepthafrica, news ethiopia, Nile, Sudan
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(Reuters) – Sudanese police fired teargas and used batons on Saturday to break up a demonstration of opposition party members over the detention of several activists and politicians, witnesses said. About 40 members of the African country’s main opposition parties … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Egypt, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Omdurman, Reuters, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Umma
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The Flying Eagles will be one of the four African representatives to the World Cup. Saturday’s 3-1 victory recorded by Nigeria’s Flying Eagles over their DR Congo counterparts did not only see them qualify for the semi final of the … read more »
Posted in Ghana, Nigeria, Soccer, Sports
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Tagged Egypt, Flying Eagles, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Obuh, Mali, Nigeria, Nigeria national under-20 football team, Turkey, World cup
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By Black T Bvumavaranda Could the great and mighty Pharaohs of Egypt be actually Zimbabweans, or South Africans? Well, here is the evidence: While the contemporary world has ordinarily portrayed Egyptians as being inclined to Arab descendancy, a little has been said in … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Ancient Egypt, Cheikh Anta Diop, David Livingstone, Egypt, Egyptian, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Henrik Clarke, Nile
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This piece is my reflection on Prof. Alemayehu G/Mariam`s (Al Mariam) recent article on the Nile, posted in his blog and shared on Facebook. I am writing this piece not because the article is that much worthy to be responded … read more »
Posted in Comoros, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Egypt, Egyptians, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Facebook, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Nile
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By Osama Al Sharif, By Arab News Egypt is getting out of control: The police are on strike in a number of cities, the civil disobedience in Port Said is in its fourth week, hooligans are attacking and ransacking public … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Egypt, IndepthAfrica, John Kerry, Mursi, Muslim Brotherhood, National Salvation Front, National Science Foundation, Port Said, United States
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(By Getahune Bekele, South Africa) After vicious media campaign for more than 2 months in the intolerant Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia against Ethiopian immigrants, massive crackdown is currently underway targeting Ethiopians only with Saudi citizens asked to call 992 … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Khalid Bin Sultan, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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Remember all the hoopla the Obama administration engaged in after helping Libya’s “freedom fighters” oust (and sodomize and murder) the nation’s former president, Muammar Gaddafi? Remember the rationale used by Obama to justify using the U.S. military to help Libya’s … read more »
The two and a half weeks between January 25 and February 11, 2011 proved that in Egypt there is a strong demand for social, political and economic justice, and that the established political elites – religious or secular – are … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Cairo, Egypt, Essam El-Erian, Gamal Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, United States
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The promotion of ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism has been a topic of discussion on two Egyptian TV programs recently. On Al-Tahrir, Egyptian TV advisor Ahmad Abdo Maher discusses the high-school curriculum issued by the highest religious authority in Egypt, … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Azhar University, Al-Nas, Al-Tahrir, Egypt, Eid al-Adha, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Muslim, Saudi Arabia
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Dear Prof. Alemayehu, Even our Egyptian brothers will not say about the dam, as Prof. Alemayehu. Some of them know the dam what we we build now is the dam they are going to build after a century for them … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Aswan, Aswan Dam, Blue Nile, Egypt, Egyptians, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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Dam War of Words Late last month, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Sultan fired a shot across the bow from the Arab Water Council in Cairo to let the regime in Ethiopia know that his country takes … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Egypt, Egyptians, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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Here come those dastardly dams! In Asia, Africa and the Middle East, nations are aggressively building hydroelectric dams, seemingly heedless of the potentially disastrous effects on the countries downstream. As examples, Laos broke ground on a Mekong River dam that’s … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Cambodia, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Lao, latest ethiopian news, Mekong, news ethiopia, Nile, Vietnam
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CLICK TO HEAR ESCAPE FROM SINAI BY BBC The truth behind the brutal trade in human trafficking in the Sinai desert ..
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged BBC World Service, Egypt, Eritrea, Eritreans torture in Sinai, Mike Thomson, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By Mike Thomson BBC News, Sinai Lamlam, 17, is one of thousands of people who make the treacherous journey from Eritrea to Egypt each year. Many fall victim to unscrupulous people traffickers, who kidnap them and demand ransom money from … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged bbc news, BBC World Service, Egypt, Eritrea, Eritreans torture in Sinai, Mike Thomson, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By: G. E. Gorfu Sir, I read your comments as reported in the Sudan Tribune of Feb. 27, 2013 where you accused Ethiopia of posing a threat to the Nile water rights of Egypt and Sudan. Where did these Nile … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Arab, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sudan Tribune
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