The foreign ministers of Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia have failed to reach an agreement in the lingering dispute over Ethiopia’s massive dam on the Blue Nile, ministers said on Friday. Egypt is concerned that the [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia announced its first project on Tiran and Sanafir islands, Egypt’s former islands. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced plans for a new economic zone in the kingdom’s northwest region with up to [ More … ]
The Egyptian Parliament continues for the second day its discussions over the destiny of the Egyptian-Saudi maritime demarcation in order to hear additional comments and views of experts. The parliament dismissed reviewing previous court verdicts [ More … ]
The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday accused Egypt of supporting the armed movements that recently entered Darfur from Libya and South Sudan, according to Sudan Tribune. Fierce clashes erupted in North and East Darfur [ More … ]
In an interview with journalist Charlie Rose on the US-based PBS TV channel during his visit to New York, al-Sisi said that he handed US Secretary of State John Kerry, during their meeting, a list [ More … ]
Egypt’s High Administrative Court accepted a recusal request of the panel reviewing a government appeal against a ruling asserting Egyptian sovereignty over the two Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir. According to the court’s [ More … ]
Sayed Kasem the advisor of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Egypt’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, suggested the sharing of the Tiran and Sanafir islands between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In his statement to al-Shorouk newspaper, Kasem [ More … ]
Egypt’s Administrative court verdict that nullifies the controversial Egyptian-Saudi demarcation agreement, slapped al-Sisi and his government’s waiver of the two Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia.The Egyptian public opinion has received the [ More … ]
The Egyptian government appealed against the administrative court nullification of the al-Sisi plan to cede control of the two Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia. The maritime border demarcation agreement was signed in April between Egypt [ More … ]
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