December 3

• Ethiopia: Panel Pushes Study On Nile Dam

  The international panel of experts asked by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to assess the impact of Ethiopia's controversial Nile dam project has continued its study despite fresh... Read more »

November 10

• Sudan: Ethiopia - Agreement Reached on Eastern Nile Basin Cooperation

  Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have agreed to resume jointly working on organizing sustainable management, utilization and development of the Nile waters under the Eastern Nile Basin. Read more »

September 27

• Sudan: Egyptian President Criticizes International Community for Not Rewarding Sudan

  The newly elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi appealed to the international community to provide additional support to Sudan and suggested that the government in Khartoum has... Read more »

September 25

• Egypt: Govt Denies Deal With Sudan to Strike Ethiopian Dam

  An Egyptian official has emphatically denied the veracity of allegations that his country had reached an agreement with neighboring Sudan to use its territories as a launchpad for... Read more »

September 24

• Sudan: Egyptian Bank to Fund Investment in Sudan With 500 Million Dollars

  An Egyptian commercial bank is going to inject 500 million US dollars into Sudanese markets to fund joint investment projects, the head of the bank said in the wake of growing... Read more »

September 20

• Egypt: Egypt's PM, Sudan's Taha Hold Talks On Economic Cooperation

  The visiting Prime Minister of Egypt, Hisham Qandil, held talks on Wednesday's evening with Sudan's first Vice-President, Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, and discussed various aspects of... Read more »

September 17

• Sudan: President, Egyptian Leader Share Views on Nile Water Rights

  The Sudanese President Omer Al-Bashir arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday and reaffirmed during talks with his counterpart Mohammed Morsi the "identical position" of... Read more »

September 16

• Sudan: Egypt Arrest Omar Al-Bashir - Amnesty International

  Arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Read more »

September 4

• Sudan: Wikileaks - Sudanese Launchpad for Egyptian Attack On Ethiopian Dam

  Egyptian authorities fearful of a monopoly on Nile waters received agreement from Khartoum to build an airbase in Sudan, to launch attacks on Ethiopian damming facilities, claims... Read more »

July 17

• Sudan: Sudan Returns Egyptian Journalist, After Bashir-Mursi Meeting

  Sudan has returned an Egyptian journalist, Shaimaa Adel, to Cairo after she was detained on June 3 for covering the month-long protests against the regime and austerity measures to... Read more »

July 4

• Sudan: Sudan Briefly Detains Egyptian Journalist Amid Renewed Protests

  Sudanese security forces on Tuesday continued their arrest spree against activists and briefly detained an Egyptian journalist as anti-regime protests flared up ahead of a new "day... Read more »

May 29

• Sudan: Egyptian Forces Prevented Delegation From Visiting Halayib, MP Says

  A Sudanese delegation led by the minister of roads was forced to cancel a visit to Halayib disputed town after being ordered to go back by Egyptian troops occupying it, an official... Read more »

April 19

• South Sudan: Kiir Accepts Egypt's Plea to Release Prisoners of War

  South Sudan's president, Salva Kiir, has accepted international pleas to release Sudanese prisoners of war which the country's army captured after taking over the contested region... Read more »

April 16

• Sudan: No Talks With Juba Until Withdrawal from Heglig, Says Bashir

  President Omer Al-Bashir of Sudan told a visiting Egyptian diplomat on Sunday that his country is not prepared to resume negotiations with neighboring South Sudan unless the latter... Read more »

March 22

• Sudan: Egyptian Company Begins River Clearance Project in Unity State

  Work began last week on a $26.6 million five year project to clear the rivers of Greater Bahr-el Gazal and Unity State to allow them to be navigable by boat. Read more »

February 28

• Sudan: Minister, Egypt and Ethiopia to Meet for Talks Over Blue Nile Dam

  The Ministers of water from Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia will meet in Addis Ababa in March for more talks over the controversial dam project Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile,... Read more »

February 20

• Sudan: Egypt Discontinues Mandate of Agricultural Experts in Nation's Sennar State - Report

  The Egyptian minister for agriculture Mohamed Reda Ismail made an abrupt decision to end the mandate of a team stationed in Sudan that is overseeing work in a farm there, according... Read more »

January 23

• Sudan: Stop Deporting Eritreans, Opposition Urges Country and Egypt

  An exiled Eritrean opposition alliance has called on the governments of Egypt and Sudan to provide legal protection to the tens and thousands of Eritrean refugees. Read more »

January 17

• Egypt: FM Visits Juba, Khartoum

  Egypt's foreign minister Mohamed Amr on Saturday visited both Sudan and South Sudan, one week after Cairo offered to mediate between the recently separated countries on their... Read more »

January 13

• Sudan: Nation Cuts Hard Currency Carried By Travelers to Ethiopia, Egypt and Eritrea By 50 Percent

  The union of foreign exchange bureaus issued a decision further limiting the amount of hard currency Sudanese travelers can carry with them to Ethiopia, Egypt and Eritrea. Read more »

January 12

• Ethiopia: Country, Sudan and Egypt Begin Studying Nile Dam Impact

  A joint tripartite technical committee set up by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan has began assessing the possible impacts of the massive hydro-power dam project Ethiopia intends to build... Read more »

January 10

• Sudan: Egypt Offers to Mediate Between Khartoum and Juba

  The Egyptian government has offered to mediate between Sudan and South Sudan to resolve the outstanding issues between the two sides, an official said today. Read more »

November 17, 2011

• South Sudan: Egyptian Islamist Group Admits Sending Fighters to South Sudan During Civil War Years

  A leading figure in an Egyptian Islamist group revealed in an interview that they have sent some of their members to fight with the Sudanese army during the civil war years. Read more »

November 16, 2011

• Egypt: Eritreans Face Deportation, Says Rights Group

  Human Rights Watch on Monday urged the new government in Egypt against deporting Eritrean asylum seekers who are currently being detained in the North African country. Read more »

November 12, 2011

• East Africa: Ethiopia Invites Egypt and Sudan to Discuss Nile Dam

  Ethiopia has officially invited Egypt and Sudan for talks over a controversial dam project the horn of Africa country intends to build on the Blue Nile river. Read more »