Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri met with his Sudanese counterpart Dardari Mohamad Ahmed on Saturday, on the side-lines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, to discuss the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The topic of trilateral...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will visit Khartoum in October to seal several bilateral deals, Sudan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo, at a time of fraught relations between the neighbors. Sudan banned the import of...اقرأ المزيد
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry released a statement declaring that they summoned the Egyptian ambassador and informed him of an official protest against a currently airing Egyptian TV series, which they claim negatively portrays Sudan. The ministry handed...اقرأ المزيد
Russia Today’s (RT) website took down an opinion poll on Saturday regarding the ownership of the Halaib triangle between Egypt and Sudan, a move which Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) described as “provocative.” According to a statement...اقرأ المزيد
A 19-year-old Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry, who she says raped her as his relatives held her down. The case of Noura Hussein has shone a spotlight on the issues of forced marriage and...اقرأ المزيد
The 18th meeting of the tripartite technical committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) started on Saturday in Addis Ababa with the participation of water and irrigation ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, as well as members of the committee....اقرأ المزيد
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will visit Egypt on Monday to discuss issues of common interest between the two countries during a bilateral summit with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. In a statement to Al-Masry Al-Youm on Saturday, Sudan’s...اقرأ المزيد
Sudan said on Tuesday that it would host a meeting between foreign and water ministers and heads of intelligence services form Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on April 4-5 regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The tripartite meeting was initially...اقرأ المزيد
The problem of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been shadowing Egyptian-Sudanese-Ethiopian relations since 2011. However, on Monday, after a tripartite meeting between the countries as part of the African Summit in Addis Ababa, President Abdel...اقرأ المزيد
The Ethiopian ambassador to Sudan Mulugeta Zewdie suggested that Egypt is turning the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) into a political issue, which he said is a technical matter. In an interview with the Sudanese daily newspaper...اقرأ المزيد