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Sudan, Ethiopia negotiate over border conflict

Bilateral talks are ongoing between Ethiopia and Sudan aimed at resuming negotiations to solve the border dispute between the two countries and the GERD crisis. There have been positive signs in recent days about resuming negotiations between Ethiopia and Sudan to solve a number of disputes between the two countries. …

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With world attention on Ukraine, Nile dam conflict escalates

Egypt and Sudan have condemned Ethiopia’s decision to partially start electricity production via the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. It seems international momentum to solve the dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa’s start of operation of its giant and controversial hydroelectric dam is waning in light of the …

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Family ties fuel Islamic State to rebel pipeline in northern Syria

The stories of fighters who turned from the Islamic State to Syria’s rebel opposition forces show the how kinship ties, regionalism, and material concerns often trump ideology in the Syrian war. As the Islamic State’s meteoric rise reversed course in 2016, the terror organization’s fighters in northeast Syria faced a …

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