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Washington has renewed its attempts to resolve the dispute over Ethiopia’s controversial Nile dam, with the US envoy for the Horn of Africa making stops in Egypt and Sudan. ....
May 13, 2021 CAIRO Cairo and Khartoum recently sent strongly worded messages to the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, rejecting all Ethiopian practices aimed at imposing a fait accompli by embarking on the second filling phase of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam without signing a comprehensive, binding legal agreement governing the filling and operation of the Nile River dam. Feltman began a regional tour in Cairo on May 5, where he met with the ministers of water and foreign affairs, as well as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Following his meeting with Feltman, Sisi said the international community ought to be responsible for resolving the crisis over the dam, also known as the GERD. The president said, “Egypt is still seeking to reach a just, fair and binding legal agreement to fill and operate the GERD, which represents an existential issue for Egypt.” He added that Cairo will not accept any attempts to undermine “its wa ....
This article is part of a limited series marking a decade since the start of the Syrian revolution. Read this piece, originally written in Arabic, here. It has been a decade since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, the divergence of its paths and the onset of the Arab Spring. There is no better time than the present to recall that event and tackle it from different angles. We can recall the moment of hope that accompanied these revolutions, or focus on what the uprisings represented when they cracked open the public sphere that had been forcibly closed for decades by different Arab despotic regimes. ....