Ethiopia

Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam on the Nile will damage Egypt on many levels, the professor of water resources at Cairo University warned on Friday. Speaking to Quds Press, Professor Nader...

Egyptian groups are supporting banned Ethiopian opposition groups, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said yesterday. Speaking before parliament a day before the formation of new government, Desalegn said that...

Thousands of Ethiopians trekking through desert heat and war in Yemen for the sake of a low-paid job in Saudi Arabia risk getting stuck in an overcrowded migrant camp...

Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have signed a deal with two French consultancy firms to study the anticipated impact of a massive hydroelectric dam — currently being built on Ethiopia's...

Algeria's Abdellatif Baka has won the country's first Paralympic gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil. Baka clinched gold to set a world record...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will mediate between Egypt and Ethiopia regarding the latter's dam project which Cairo believes will have a detrimental effect on its economy, Israeli magazine...

The Ethiopian Ambassador in Cairo Mahmoud Dreier said Ethiopia will build another dam after the Renaissance Dam is completed. Speaking on Egypt's Al- Nahar TV channel, Dreier said his...

Algeria and Sudan are leading efforts to prevent Israel from regaining its status as an observer member of the African Union, Egyptian diplomatic circles revealed. Algeria's Al-Fajr newspaper on...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is reported to have asked the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene and help solve his country's dispute with Ethiopia over the Renaissance...

Official Ethiopian remarks that the Renaissance Dam is almost complete have infuriated Egyptian officials, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported yesterday. Speaking to the media, Ethiopian Minister of Government Communication Affairs Getachew Reda said that his...

Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel Ati, is scheduled to visit Sudan to discuss Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam, local media reported. Abdel Ati's visit to Khartoum comes...

The Ethiopian Minister of Irrigation, Water and Electricity has insisted that no agreement has been reached with Egypt to store water behind its new dam on the River Nile,...

Recent events have brought tension back into the relations between Egypt and Sudan, so Khartoum has increased its statements regarding a summit meeting between Presidents Omar Al-Bashir and Abdel...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday he understands Egyptians’ worries about the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, expressing his commitment to preserve the interests of both the Ethiopian and...

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Tuesday signed an agreement regarding a controversial mega-dam project being built by Addis Ababa on the Nile. The deal crowned three days of talks...

Acting Egyptian Prime Minister, Ismail Sharif, described on Monday talks between Egypt and Ethiopia over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam as “very difficult”. Ismail told reporters at the cabinet in...

Egypt has asked the UAE to intervene directly and help resolve its ongoing dispute with Ethiopia over the Renaissance Dam which Ethiopia is building near its border with Sudan....

A Palestinian official said Israel’s bid to gain membership as an observer state in the African Union (AU) will “fail” because of the AU’s support for Palestine. “We appreciate...

Egypt’s presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef said yesterday that the Tripartite National Committee (TNC) is to convene on 5 October to discuss the issue of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...

Violent clashes erupted yesterday between hundreds of Israeli Jews of Ethiopian origin and the police during anti-racism protests in Tel Aviv. Israel's Channel 10 reported that the clashes broke...

Hundreds of Israeli Jews of Ethiopian origin took to the streets of central Tel Aviv yesterday to protest against what they said was police brutality and discrimination. Israel's Channel...

It is not the youth of Shufat this time! On my way to the Old City of Jerusalem from my neighbourhood of Shufat at the end of April, I...

Ethiopian-Israeli activists on Sunday threatened to renew protests if Israeli authorities did not meet their demands and drop all criminal charges against their colleagues arrested during a protest in...

The Ethiopian foreign ministry expressed concern over "police brutality" in Israel and "years of widespread discrimination" against Israelis of Ethiopian origins, Israeli media reported yesterday. According to the Israeli...

Thousands of Ethiopian Jews live in Israel, many of them airlifted into the country secretly in two separate operations in 1984 and 1990 that helped them to escape famine...

Ethiopia has confirmed that dozens of men murdered recently by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Libya were Ethiopian. In a statement, the government said it had relied on numerous...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi will cut short his visit to Ethiopia where an African Union summit is due to begin and will return home to follow up on...

Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende said yesterday that the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks could resume after the Israeli general election scheduled in March. In exclusive comments made to the Anadolu...

Israeli rabbis of Ethiopian origin yesterday accused the Israeli rabbinate of racially discriminating against them despite all the challenges they have fought to transfer tens of thousands of Jews...

Consultations among experts of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt aimed at determining the impact of Ethiopia's $4.8 billion dam project on the Nile's upper reaches halted amid differences between Egypt...

The situation in Libya is very difficult and the security situation of grave concern and this constitutes a real threat to the unity of the country in the future,...

Further evidence has been provided to the United States government on the Assad regime's crimes against humanity, yet still, no accountability has been addressed by the Obama administration. A...