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Jun. 3, 2021 3:21 PM
While the Egyptian mediation team came to Israel and Gaza to propose plans for a potential long-term truce between Israel and Hamas, another front was heating up in Egypt. General Tamer al-Refai, the spokesman for Egypt’s armed forces, announced that members of the Egyptian military had arrived in Sudan to participate in a joint exercise. This exercise was dubbed “Guardians of the Nile,” perhaps inspired by name of the Israeli operation “Guardians of the Walls.”
For Egypt, this military display was much more important than the Israel-Gaza fighting, as it touches on what it views as an existential danger: Ethiopia’s intention to begin the second phase of filling the reservoir adjacent to its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. This joint exercise is the third between Egypt and Sudan in the past two years, most recently in April.
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