Nile Waters

Analysis: The Nile Tripartite Technical Committee

Ethiopia’s announcement of the decision to build the Renaissance Dam on the Abay River, the Blue Nile, was met with…

The Grand Renaissance Dam one year on

Ethiopia celebrated the first anniversary of the launching of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project on April 2, 2012. A…

Ethiopia-Egypt: The first political consultation meeting

(Feb. 03, 2012 - A Week in the Horn of Africa) On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign…

Egypt looks to make up for lost ground with Nile Basin countries | Al-Masry Al-Youm

Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is currently on a six-country tour of the Nile Basin countries as Egypt increases its…

Nile: Ethiopia’s ‘grand dam’ rouses citizens, dismays critics – William Davison

In the western fringe of Ethiopia on the banks of the Blue Nile river, the nation's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi…

Egypt’s new Foreign Minister to visit six Nile Basin countries in January

(Dec. 26, 2011) - Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is scheduled to begin a tour of six Nile Basin countries…

Nile: Tripartite committee on Renaissance Dam convenes in Cairo

Egypt State Information Service reported the following on December 25, 2011. Tripartite experts committee convenes to assess Ethiopia’s Millennium Dam…

Nile: Ministers agree on Int’l Experts Panel for Renaissance Dam

Terms of Reference agreed for the International Panel of Experts on the Nile Dam [A Week in the Horn of…

UN expert: Indefinite, prolonged solitary confinement should be banned

“Segregation, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit (SHU)… whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned…

UN: Nile water allocation has become a near zero-sum game

* The population in the Nile basin — currently around 200 million people — is expected to increase by between…

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