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July 5, 2020

Political Issues of the Blue Nile

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which without warning began ravaging our planet, some important issues have been put on hold. However, they will have to be resolved sooner or later. One of them is the water scarcity problem. In fact, some scientists and experts believe that it may lead to wars, which could cause more deaths than the Coronavirus pandemic....

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July 1, 2020

Conflict in Libya Intensifies

Despite international community’s efforts to resolve the Libyan conflict via peaceful means, it is intensifying and new participants are becoming embroiled in it. On June 21, while inspecting Egyptian Armed Forces of Western Military Region stationed in the Sidi Barrani air base, located near the border with Libya, President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi told the troops to “be prepared...

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June 28, 2020

Ethiopia’s Disinterest in Dam Negotiations Can Ignite War with Egypt

Another attempt to resolve the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over a large Chinese-funded hydroelectric dam built on the Nile River has failed. This has increased tensions over control of the most important water source in the region, especially for Egypt that has relied on the Nile for thousands of years. Cairo sent a letter to the United Nations Security...

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June 27, 2020

How Washington Intends to Triumph

For two decades Washington has been trying to “reshape” the “Greater Middle East”, an arbitrarily defined region stretching from Afghanistan to Morocco. However, over the last three years two strategies have clashed: on the one hand the Pentagon, which wants to destroy the state structures of all the countries in the region, whether friends or enemies, and on the other...

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June 27, 2020

Could the Jewels of the Mediterranean Unleash a World War?

In recent days, the situation in the Mediterranean region’s eastern section has grown ever more tense. The discovery here of huge natural gas reserves has exacerbated not only simmering regional conflicts, but also the emergence of new ones, which could possibly entangle a number of NATO countries. Regional states such as Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt – even global...

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June 11, 2020

“Greater Israel” and North Africa

In his diaries, the father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, wrote that the area of the Jewish State stretched from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates. The “Greater Israel” (or the “Yinon”) plan, first drafted more than a century ago, entails “weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of a US-Israeli expansionist project, with the support...

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May 21, 2020

Why did US Start Actively Supporting Egypt?

Washington threatening to potentially impose sanctions against Egypt at the end of 2019 if Cairo went ahead with its purchase of military aircraft from Russia became “a new source of friction” for the USA “with a country whose leader” had been previously lauded by the US President. And just a few days ago, Donald Trump showed the world that the...

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April 24, 2020

Russia is About to Face its Biggest Test Yet in Syria

An American reader tired of corona journalism sent me a plea this week: “There must be plenty of cruelty being unleashed by the gangsters-in-chief across the ‘Mideast’ that simply isn’t making it into the headlines,” she wrote. “Trump et al are either ignoring it or silently condoning it.” I doubt if Donald Trump is ignoring it, but I do think...

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Political Issues of the Blue Nile

Conflict in Libya Intensifies

Ethiopia’s Disinterest in Dam Negotiations Can Ignite War with Egypt

How Washington Intends to Triumph

Could the Jewels of the Mediterranean Unleash a World War?

“Greater Israel” and North Africa

Why did US Start Actively Supporting Egypt?

Russia is About to Face its Biggest Test Yet in Syria