
Egypt and Sudan participated in a ministerial meeting yesterday sponsored by the African Union (AU) and focused on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations. The government in Addis Ababa announced the meeting amid European encouragement to hold "constructive" talks. On Saturday, the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported that Foreign Minister Omar Gamar El-Din and Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Yasser Abbas would take part. The meeting was chaired by South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor. SUNA quoted an unnamed official source as saying that the meeting was set to discuss Sudan's proposal to activate the negotiations by giving a greater role to AU experts in order to reach a binding legal agreement on […]
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