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[Getachew K Reda @reda_getachew]

The problem with Egypt’s diplomacy, such as it is, is it insists on bending history, science, engineering and geography over backwards to serve its mostly apocryphal claims of ‘historic rights’!

[The Asrat Blog @RenaissanceDam]

Egypt: “Ethiopia has a right to development.”

Also Egypt: Surrender 70% of your surface water which generates ~85% of Nile flow while we claim the entire river.

Develop with what? dust?

Disgusting hypocrisy.

#NileBasin #Ethiopia #SouthSudan #Sudan #Egypt  #Uganda #Kenya #Tanzania #Rwanda #Burundi #DRCongo #Eritrea #GERD #WhiteNile #BlueNile #AfricanWater #WaterJustice #Africa

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

They had to go through

Uruguay
Portugal
Belgium
France
Argentina

Spain are the worthy Champions 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Bloomberg @business]

Ethiopian Airlines Group is in the final stages of deciding on an aircraft order for as many as 50 jets https://t.co/8GYvu8sgMc

[fresils @iFresils]

please, wear your nice clothes everyday. the special occasion is being alive.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

African teams till 80th minute

[Birrmetrics @birrmetrics]

Binance said its platform is accessible again in Ethiopia through Ethiotelecom following regulatory engagements. The exchange did not disclose details. Ethiopia continues to restrict cryptocurrencies as a payment method.

Read More: https://t.co/KGB4zbALXB

[ምን ይሻላል ? @Zesemir]

Ethiopian-American Artist Julie Mehretu Pays Tribute to Afewerk Tekele with a Monumental Painted Glass Window at the Obama Presidential Center.” #obamacenter

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

They came They went

[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

South Africa have 0 shots on target because they are busy targeting other African countries

[Samuel Tamene🇪🇹 @tamene_samuel]

BREAKING🇪🇹✅Stanbic Bank weighs entering the Ethiopian market, reports Business Daily Africa.https://t.co/MVPWAJfRzo

[Feven Yemane @FevenYemaney]

Running argument that Eritrean ports can only serve as gateways for 'growing' Ethiopian economy is flawed because it misses the fact that with the right transshipment infrastructure the Red Sea itself is the anchor tenant for Eritrea . https://t.co/floBRa370y

[Africa Updates @africaupdates]

Ethiopia🇪🇹 to Introduce Digital ID‑Based Passport Service, Reducing Need for In‑Person Applications - Birr Metrics https://t.co/oAFMqFNqec

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

The United States will slash the number of embassies in Africa that process visas by more than half, the Associated Press reported on Monday, citing sources. https://t.co/dUkAPfucRX

[RT @RT_com]

Cuba UNVEILS breakthrough CANCER VACCINE Vaxira

Vaxira trains immune system to IDENTIFY and DESTROY lung cancer cells

‘All… achieved by country under DECADES of US economic blockade’ — Cuban Embassy US

[dagistuta @dagistuta]

@FotballVibes He was a curse to the club thank God he left. Now the drought curse continued at Real Madrid too.

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

Dangote just got the green light to build a cross-border oil and gas pipeline between Ethiopia and Djibouti.

Think about what this means. Ethiopia has almost 140 million people and no coastline. For decades, fuel has had to come in by truck from Djibouti. And the 7 trillion cubic feet of gas under the Ogaden Basin? Sitting there since the 1970s with nowhere to go.

He is solving both problems at once.

The first pipeline brings refined fuel from Djibouti's port into Ethiopia. The second sends Ethiopian gas and crude out to the world through the Red Sea.

This is on top of his $4 billion fertiliser plant in Ethiopia, which he just doubled in size, and the 650,000 barrel-per-day refinery Museveni publicly backed him on.

A fertiliser plant, a refinery, and now a pipeline that connects all of it. The man is not building businesses anymore. He is building infrastructure for a region.

[The Asrat Blog @RenaissanceDam]

Are you still complaining that Egypt is circling Ethiopia? That is Egypt’s job. What is yours?

Stop the complaining. Start the outmaneuvering. Hit Egypt where it actually hurts: Nile law, the CFA, regional diplomacy, and coalition building.

Egypt is doing what an historical enemy does. It runs wherever it can find pressure. Fine.

What is surprising is Ethiopia still acting slow, quiet, and reactive on one of the easiest legal wins on the board: Kenya and the CFA.

1. The CFA entered into force in October 2024.
2. Kenya signed the CFA in 2010.
3. Kenya’s National Assembly approved the CFA ratification motion on 27 September 2017 by 83 votes to 37.

Multiple speakers in that sitting said the next step was for the Foreign Ministry to deposit the instrument with the African Union.

So why is this still unfinished?

Why is Addis collecting handshakes when it should be collecting ratifications and deposits? This is not how real diplomacy works. States push each other all the time on unfinished interests.

Look at Kenya itself.

In September 2025, President Ruto flew to Addis as chief guest at the GERD inauguration and publicly announced Kenya’s readiness to sign a new power purchase agreement to expand imports from Ethiopia.

In December 2025, Ruto made a one day working visit to Addis with the Safaricom CEO at his side, and walked out with Abiy’s public backing of Safaricom and Ethio Telecom joint investments across the Horn.

Two visits in four months. Two concrete wins for Kenya. Telecom and power. Locked in, on the record, in front of cameras.

That is what a serious state looks like when it shows up to Addis.

So the question writes itself.

Ruto wanted Safaricom backed. He got it.
Ruto wanted more GERD power. He got the door opened.

What did Ethiopia ask for in return?
Where is the public ask: ratify and deposit?

Ratify. Deposit. Finish the job.

This is not a small bureaucratic step. It is a legal weapon. Kenya completing the process strengthens the transition to the Nile River Basin Commission, tightens the upstream legal front, and buries Egypt’s colonial veto narrative deeper.

Egypt plays the long game. It prepares the language early. It builds alliances early. It shapes headlines early. It turns every delay into leverage.

And Ethiopia?

Too often, Ethiopia wins the hard engineering battle, then sleeps through the legal one. We host the summit, sign the telecom MOU, open the GERD turbines, and forget to walk out with the one signature that would actually rewrite the Nile order.

GERD was the engineering victory.
The CFA and the Nile River Basin Commission must become the diplomatic victory.

If Ethiopia does not build the future, Egypt will build it for us. And it will build it against us.

This is not strategy.
This is sleepwalking.
Wake Up!

#Ethiopia #Kenya #CFA #GERD #Abbay #BlueNile #NileBasin #WaterJustice #Africa #Egypt #Sudan #Uganda #Tanzania #Rwanda #Burundi #DRc
@mfaethiopia

[Oliver Liu 中国记者在非洲 @YoloOliver1]

Construction is in full swing at Bishoftu International Airport, Ethiopia. 🇪🇹✈️👷

What a massive project!

[The Asrat Blog @RenaissanceDam]

Hormuz is Iran’s chokepoint.
Abbay is Ethiopia’s sourcepoint.

Iran’s geography gives it leverage over one of the world’s most strategic maritime passages.

But Ethiopia’s geography gives it something stronger and more legitimate: sovereign and equitable-use rights over a river born in its own highlands, fed by its own rains, and carved by its own mountains.

Hormuz is an international strait Iran’s hand is military. Powerful, but legally exposed.

Abbay is an international river born in Ethiopia, where Ethiopia has the right to develop, generate power, and use its water equitably.

Egypt and Sudan divided the Nile in old agreements. Ethiopia was never at that table. Upstream Africa of Nile basin countries was never at that table.

GERD is sovereignty.

We are not carrying carry Egypt internal water problem on our shoulders. That’s their problem!

#Ethiopia #GERD #Abbay #BlueNile #NileJustice #WaterSovereignty #Geopolitics #Hormuz #Iran #Egypt #Sudan