Leaders of Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt to meet in Sharm el-Sheikh

Addis Ababa, February 13, 2016 (FBC) – A meeting between leaders of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt will be held on 20 February in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh during the African Investment Conference, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday.
According to foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zied, the decision to hold the meeting was reached after talks held between Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry and his Ethiopian counterpart Tedros Adhanom at the security conference in Munich.

The two had discussed the latest meeting of the three countries’ irrigation ministers in Khartoum on the developments of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam.

They also discussed a number of African regional issues including the situation in South Sudan and the peace agreement between the opposition and the government.