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Sisi Stresses Importance of Reaching Legally Binding Agreement on GERD

Saturday, 17 April, 2021 - 09:00 Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as it appears in a satellite image taken on July 20 (AFP) Cairo, London - Walid Abdulrahman, Asharq Al-Awsat Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi asserted the need to reach a legally binding agreement with Ethiopia before starting the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Sisi discussed the latest developments concerning GERD with the president of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh in a telephone call. The two leaders agreed on the need to resolve the GERD dispute to avoid its negative impact on regional security and stability. Egypt and Sudan have been negotiating with Ethiopia for almost 10 years to conclude a legal agreement regulating the filling and operation of the dam, which Addis Ababa built on the main tributary of the Nile to generate electric power.

How Israel kept the Arab Spring from becoming the winter of its discontent

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo) Ten years ago, in late 2010 and early 2011, the Arab world experienced a series of convulsions that tore apart the Middle East as we knew it. Starting in Tunisia, where a young fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest corruption and police abuse, angry demonstrations spread throughout the region. Some of the world’s longest-ruling leaders were toppled within months. There was a sense of optimism, that the long-suffering citizens of Arab nations were finally rising up to demand basic human rights and dignity in secular, youth-led popular uprisings.

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