By ALEX DE WAAL, NYTimes Credit Anthony Russo On one of the last occasions an Egyptian president visited Addis Ababa, he got no further than the road from the airport: In 1995 the motorcade of President Hosni Mubarak came under fire from Egyptian jihadists. Mr. Mubarak was saved by his bulletproof car, his driver’s skill and…
Geopolitical Monitor 1. China-India: The Brahmaputra River The Brahmaputra River is a 2,900 km river that originates in Tibet and flows through India’s Arunachal Pradesh state before merging with the Ganges and draining into the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. It is considered an important resource in all three countries that it flows through: for…
By Pierre Crabitès Foreign Affairs October 1929 THE Egyptian Gazette of May 9, 1929, carried the text of an agreement on the long-debated question as to the use of the waters of the River Nile. The agreement, which recognizes on the one hand.that the Sudan needs more water for its development, and on the other hand that…
20 April 2014 International_panel_of_experts_for_ethiopian_renaissance_dam-_final_report_1 GERD under construction in April 2013. International Rivers Construction on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam(GERD) – Africa’s biggest hydropower dam – began based on piecemeal preliminary studies and design documents, with only a very basic analysis of how the project would affect downstream neighbors, according to the 2013 final report by an…
20 April 2014 Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam The above link shows the GERD project and its future significance to Ethiopia and the region. It is distributed by The Ethiopian Consular in LA, California for bond purchasing and advertising purpose.
By Yosef Yacob, AB, JD, LLM, PHD February 20, 2014 Yosef Yacob (PhD) (Part I) Generally, formal agreements and legal regimes provide a legal point of departure to contribute the general principles and rules that govern co-basin states’ legal relations in the utilization of international rivers. This chapter begins the examination of reciprocal rights and…
Different articles and point of views on river Nile and how to use it by its region. Abadir M Ibrahim On Nile River Nile_River_Basin_Cooperative_Framework_2010 Nile-agreement-analysis By Nebiyu Tedla May 2nd 2013 River Nile and Int Law-2010Dereje Zeleke Mekonnen Valerie_Knobelsdorf__Nile_Note
BY EGYPTSOURCE With a popular referendum on Egypt’s draft constitution expected in January, the final draft has been submitted to interim President Adly Mansour for his approval. The referendum is expected to take place in the first or second week of January. Doing away with much of the original 2012 constitution drafted under ousted president Mohamed…