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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Ethiopia. (Getty)

The Water Wars Defining Middle East Future

Armed conflicts are not new to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It is the only region in the world where people, on daily basis, witness stories of territorial disputes, civil wars,…

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US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman meets with Sudanese Foreign Minister Maryam al-Sadeq al-Mahdi in Khartoum on May 7, 2021. (Getty)

Khartoum's GERD Fears and Hopes

As Ethiopia prepares to move forward with the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) mega-dam it is building on the Blue Nile, differences between Sudan and Ethiopia are…

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An Ethiopian boy refugee who fled the Tigray conflict walks carrying a container of oil contributed by USAID, at Village Eight transit centre near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 2, 2020. (Getty)

Development Depends on More Than Aid

In the quarter century preceding the global COVID-19 pandemic, the world achieved something astonishing: worldwide poverty fell by more than 60 percent. Foreign aid played an important role in…

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Participants in a meeting for Arab and African countries of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (L to R) Foreign Ministers of Eritrea Osman Saleh Mohammed, Somalia Ahmed Isse Awad, Saudi Minister of State for African Affairs Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Qattan, Foreign Ministers of Jordan Ayman Safadi, Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan, Egypt Sameh Shoukry, Djibouti Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Sudan Asma Mohamed Abdalla, Yemen Mohammad Al-Hadhrami, pose for a group picture ahead of the meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on January 6, 2020. (Getty)

Ray of hope as Saudi Arabia Proposes to Mediate Nile Dam Dispute

Speculation is rife about the future of negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the latter's Nile River dam, after Saudi Arabia unveiled a plan to broker a settlement of the conflict…

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Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariam Al Mahdi

Mariam Al Mahdi: Revolutionary ‘Kandake’ as Sudan’s Top Diplomat

Mariam Al Mahdi is only the second woman to be appointed as Foreign Minister in Sudan’s history. A doctor and a politician, she represents the aspiration of the Sudanese people for better government…

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Abiy Ahmed’s Crisis of Legitimacy

In early November, Ethiopian Prime MinisterAbiy Ahmedbegan a military offensive against the Tigrayan People’sLiberation Front, an estranged regional government that once dominated Ethiopia’s ruling…

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Abiy Ahmed: Ethiopia’s Peacemaking Prime Minister

Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia's Prime Minister in April2018, the firstOromoto lead his country. The Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, had never been in prominent positions of power in the…

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Sahle-Work Zewde: Ethiopia’s First Female President

Illustrated by: Ali El Mandalawy 1: SLIGHTLY ABOVE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS Once upon a time in Ethiopia, during the reign of the country’s last Emperor Haile Selassie, there was…

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