Delegations from Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan met in Washington on Wednesday around President Donald Trump to continue discussions over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The meeting was extended to the US Secretary of the Treasury and the President of the World Bank. President Trump said in a tweet that “the meeting on the Grand […]
Egyptian military forces announced Thursday the killing of the Islamic State leader in the Sinai Peninsula, Abu Doaa al-Ansari, in an army-led operation in the provincial capital of el-Arish. IS group in the Sinai has been engaged in a guerrilla war with Egyptian security forces since the 2013 overthrow of the country’s democratically elected President, […]
A Royal Navy patrol boat intercepted, approximately 157 km northwest of the city of Dakhla, a pirogue in difficulty with on board 196 Sub-Saharan would-be migrants, who intended to reach the Canary Islands. One of the passengers was dead. The rescued people received first aid on board, before being taken safely back to the […]
