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Will Trump’s Mediation Finally Resolve The Egypt-Ethiopia Dam Dispute?
...naissance Dam (GERD) (MEES, 12 September 2025), US President Donald Trump has waded back into the 15-year dispute over Nile water security, offering to mediate between Ethiopia and the downstream states of Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia broke ground on the $5bn megaproject in 2011, while Egypt was busy qu...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Trump Intervention Throws Iraqi Politics Into Disarray
...d then supported his crackdown on Shia militias during his first term in office. But after the US military withdrawal in 2011 he drew closer to Iran, while the rise of the Islamic State during his second term further tarnished his reputation in Washington. While Iraq’s Sunnis publicly opposed a Ma...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Kurdish Hopes Of Autonomy In New Syria Unravel
...ants in Deir Ezzor. Prior to the 2011 civil war, Omar processed gas from fields operated by the Al-Furat Petroleum Company (AFPC), a consortium made up of the Syrian government, Shell, CNPC and India’s ONGC. AFPC’s largest field was Omar and Youssef Qablawi, CEO of the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC), sa...
Volume: 68Issue: 23Published at Fri, 23 Jan 2026