President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday Egypt is not conspiring against its neighbours and has no intention to fight, a reference to growing tension with Sudan. Khartoum has in the past accused Cairo of political meddling while Egypt has accused Sudan of harbouring Egyptian Islamists. “Egypt will not fight its brothers … I‘m saying this as a message to our brothers in Sudan,” Sisi said. Separately, Ethiopia is building a hydroelectric dam on the Nile which Cairo fears will restrict the waters flowing down from Ethiopia’s highlands and through Sudan to Egypt. Egypt believes Sudan is leaning towards the Ethiopian position in the dispute.

Source: Ethiopian News January 16, 2018 09:33 UTC