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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aaty has described the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a “dam of ruin and destruction” during a meeting with Egyptian students, in remarks that diplomatic sources say mark a shift in Cairo's tone on one of its most sensitive national security issues, namely Nile water security.

According to Egyptian diplomatic sources, the comments were neither a “slip of the tongue” nor an emotional outburst during a closed meeting, but a calculated recalibration of official rhetoric on a file Cairo regards as existential. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aaty has described the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a “dam of ruin and destruction” during a meeting with Egyptian students, in remarks that diplomatic sources say mark a shift in Cairo's tone on one of its most sensitive national security issues, namely Nile water security. https://www.newarab.com/news/egyptian-m ... am-ruinous

Same old drama and optics!

Sure enough Ethiopia's successful diplomatic and strategic response to Egypt's bluff with solid relationships with Israel, UAE, India etc has deeply frightened El-Sisi.

They will get used to it. The Ethiopia of 2025 is not what Egyptian fixed old arrogant perception hold inside their colonial skull.