When Mohammed Abdel Wahhab chanted the poem in the movie
The White Rose in 1933, the Egyptians were angry and objected to Shawqi s attempt to attribute the great River Nile to the negus, a title of the King of Abyssinia, modern Ethiopia. Shawqi reassured the Egyptian people by explaining that the word negus is from the Amharic language, and he used it to convey the meaning that the Nile is king because of the great and glorious role it plays in the life of Egypt.
A lot of Nile water has flowed by since then, and today the ruler is ruled by Ethiopia. When Shawqi described the Nile as king Egypt was powerful, with geographic dominance extending into Africa. This was especially so during the era of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who supported revolutions across the continent with weapons and funds. Under Nasser, Cairo was an incubator of African revolutions.
Egypt, Sudan Say No to Ethiopia s Proposal of Nile Sharing Data
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Egypt reiterates ‘red line’ in Nile dam row with Ethiopia
Sisi’s comment came amid a deadlock in the years-long talks over the dam between the Nile Basin countries, which also includes Sudan.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (L) being received by Sudan’s Sovereign Council chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, March 6, 2021. (AFP)
CAIRO Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry explained that the red line drawn by his country in the crisis of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is to deny “harm to its interests.”
“When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talked about a red line, he meant any damage caused to Egypt’s share of water,” Shoukry said in statements to local media on Sunday.
Nile Dam Talks End With No Agreement Published April 8th, 2021 - 08:11 GMT
Ethiopian workers on scaffolding during construction of Grand Renaissance Dam near Sudanese-Ethiopian border (AFP/file photo)
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Nile dam talks between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan fail to reach turning point.
Ethiopia has accused Egypt and Sudan of obstructing the latest round of three-way talks on a contested Nile dam that it has been building over the River, as tensions continue to simmer between the African neighbors over the project.
The meeting failed due to Egypt and Sudan s rigid stance to make the negotiation and the outcome a tool to affirm their self-claimed water share and foreclose Ethiopia s share, Ethiopia s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Tensions Escalate As Ethiopia, Egypt And Sudan Exchange Barbs After Nile Talks Falter
Upstream Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan exchanged barbs and traded blames as tensions escalated between the African neighbours over Nile river dispute.
After 3-way talks on the contentious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) built on Nile river’s main tributaries hit deadlock in Kinshasa on Sunday, upstream Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan exchanged barbs and traded blames as tensions escalated between the African neighbours. Accusing Egypt and Sudan of obstructing the recent Khartoum-hosted trilateral dialogue post a two-year hiatus about the Nile river’s water, Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesman Meles Alem took aim at the two downstream nations for the failure of a diplomatic resolution.
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