Saturday, March 6, 2021

Egypt and Sudan Team Up to Put Pressure on Ethiopia

 Ahramonline posted on 6 March 2021 an article titled "Egypt, Sudan Reject Ethiopia's Unilateral Announcement to Start Second GERD Filling with or without Deal" by Amr Kandil.  

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has just completed a visit to Khartoum where he met with Sudan's head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and Vice President of the Sovereign Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. They agreed on an approach for resuming negotiations with Ethiopia to resolve issues surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.