Saudi Arabia will soon release Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi, an Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire arrested in November during a crackdown on corruption, Ethiopia’s prime minister said. Abiy Ahmed made the...

Saudi Arabia has agreed to release 1,000 Ethiopian nationals who have been in prison in the Gulf state for a variety of offences, Ethiopian state affiliated media said on...

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have reached an agreement in their ongoing dispute over the construction of the Renaissance Dam on the River Nile. Progress was made in talks held...

The United Nations International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has expressed its concerns that the Saudi-led military collation in Yemen may bomb the its buses if they move African immigrants...

Roshan De Stone is a human rights advocate working in Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon. As a freelance journalist, she has published with Al Araby, Al Jadaliyya and SalonSyria...

Ethiopia and Israel signed several cooperation agreements in the fields of health, education, energy and agriculture yesterday. The signing came during the Ethiopian-Israeli Business Forum held in Addis Ababa...

Sudan and Ethiopia have agreed to setup joint forces which will protect Addis Ababa’s Grand Renaissance Dam. The Chiefs of Staff of both countries, Kamal Abdul-Marouf Al-Mahi and Samora Yunus, met last...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Monday that it has evacuated 76 illegal Ethiopian immigrants from Yemen on Sunday. “They were stranded in Aden, southern Yemen, and...

A common tactic for intelligence agencies is the use of front companies. In books about Israeli spy agencies, the tactic is a frequent reappearance. Former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky’s...

The Saudi authorities said they had arrested 994,000 people between 18 April to 22 April, Saudi Okaz newspaper reported. According to the paper, 14,467 people were stopped by the...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday discussed with African Union Peace and Security Commissioner, Ismail Sharqi, the United Nations Security Council decision to reduce United Nations African Union Mission in...

Ethiopia and Sudan have ignored an Egyptian invitation for a meeting this week in Cairo to resume discussions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Last week, the Egyptian Foreign Minister,...

Talks about the River Nile between Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia held in Khartoum on 5 April were deadlocked. The discussions revolved around Ethiopia’s construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam....

On Thursday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry refused to be held responsible for the failure of the latest round of negotiations over the Renaissance Dam in Khartoum. The Egyptian Foreign...

Ethiopia has blamed Egypt for the failure of recent Khartoum-hosted talks between the water ministers of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia. Last week, negotiations over Ethiopia’s ambitious Grand Renaissance Dam...

Somalia’s security forces have seized $9.6 million after a long stand-off with United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the search of a Royal Jet aircraft travelling from Abu Dhabi yesterday....

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour has announced the failure of the talks held in Khartoum over the Ethiopian Dam, Al-Jazeera reported on Friday. The announcement came after 13 hours...

Egyptian Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Ati has said that his country will resume talks with Addis Ababa over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as soon as the new Ethiopian government is formed, Thenewkhalij.org...

Hundreds of African asylum seekers, jailed for refusing to be part of Israel’s controversial mass deportation plan, are to remain in prison until the government responds to a petition...

A US State Department delegation arrived in Sudan on Monday to discuss Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, the Sudanese Media Centre (SMC) has reported. The Centre said that the US delegation,...

Anxious and hungry, hundreds of African migrants lie cramped together on the ground of an open-air warehouse in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden. Most are from desperately...

It is “inevitable” that Egypt will continue to work on implementing the agreement that was reached during the tripartite summit on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam which was held in...

The Saudi authorities continue to detain Saudi billionaire, Mohammed Al-Amoudi; the largest investor in Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, the New York Times reports. Amoudi was detained in November, last year...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will arrive in Cairo on Monday for an official visit to Egypt, according to the Egyptian Presidency. Talks between President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and al-Bashir will...

The Egyptian capital of Cairo wastes at least one million cubic metres of water every day, the Governor of Cairo, Atef Abdel Hamid, said yesterday. Speaking to local officials...

The federal government of Somalia has rejected a United Arab Emirates (UAE) logistics company port deal, claiming that it undermines its unity, sovereignty and is a violation of its...

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The Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Sudan, along with the heads of intelligence services from both countries, concluded an important meeting in Cairo on Thursday. The agenda included strategic...

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have agreed to establish railways and roads to connect them to each other, Khartoum’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said yesterday. The presidents of the three...

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have agreed to complete an initial technical study of the Renaissance Dam. Officials from the three countries are holding talks regarding the controversial project in...

The leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet on Monday in a bid to break a deadlock in negotiations over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building along...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has officially rejected an Egyptian proposal that the World Bank join negotiations over the dam that Addis Ababa is constructing on the Nile River,...