AllAfrica News: Egypt

[Daba Finance] Egypt has issued new rules for short selling on the Egyptian Exchange, requiring investors to provide cash collateral equal to at least 50% of the market value of borrowed securities. The Financial Regulatory Authority approved the framework under Resolution No. 155 of 2026 as part of efforts to increase trading and add more investment tools to the market.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The United States is ready to resume mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump has said, signalling a renewed diplomatic effort to resolve the long-running dispute over the use and management of Nile waters.

[Reporter] The Blue Nile water policy maintained by Cairo is a manifestation of an outdated, rigid, and aggressive posture that defies modern standards of international cooperation. While the river has sustained civilizations for millennia across the Horn and Northeast Africa, modern geopolitics have transformed this natural gift into a persistent arena of contention. At the cen...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Egypt must abandon its long-standing posture of seeking exclusive control over Abay (the Nile) waters and recognize Ethiopia's natural rights as the source of 86 percent of the river's total volume, according to the geopolitician Elias Abiy.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The illegal TPLF faction is exposing the youth of Tigray Region to exploitation to advance the destructive agendas of Eritrea's regime, Shaebia and Egypt, Colonel Gebrewahid Hailu, stated.