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Laborers work at the Grand Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, in the Benishangul Gumuz region in Ethiopia, on March 16, 2014. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

Opinion: Diverting the Blue Nile’s course could take Africa to war

by Huda Al Husseini | Mar 24, 2014 | Opinion

Water wars, many warn, could be around the corner. After the removal of former President Mohamed Mursi, Egypt has inherited a huge problem: Addis Ababa decided to divert the course of the Blue Nile late May, as part of its project to generate electricity through the...

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File photo of Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmi. (EPA/KHALED ELFIQI)

Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmi on African relations

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Oct 31, 2013 | Interviews

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Since the ousting of Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Mohamed Mursi, Egypt’s new government has struggled to assert its legitimacy in international forums outside of the Arab world. In particular, the African Union (AU), once dismissed as a...

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Egypt’s interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Interim Egyptian Foreign Minister: The View from Cairo

by Ali Ibrahim | Aug 3, 2013 | Interviews

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Career diplomat and politician Nabil Fahmy finds himself at the helm of Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a very difficult time in the country’s history. With the eyes of the international community firmly on post-Mursi Egypt, it is Fahmy’s...