The 50th anniversary of Nasser’s death is topping coverage in the foreign press this morning: Jacobin calls him a “towering figure who left an ambiguous legacy,” AFP looks back at his funeral, and Gulf News carries a photo gallery of some of the most pivotal moments during his presidency. Meanwhile, Reuters has picked up a report on arrests since self-exiled contractor Mohamed Ali called for protests on 20 September.

Why are Egypt and Ethiopia not making progress on GERD? “Egypt is pursuing an agreement based on a simple and mutually beneficial quid pro quo … Ethiopia’s objective, however, is to exploit these negotiations to assert control over the Blue Nile … and to reconfigure the political topography of the Nile Basin,” Foreign Policy suggests in its latest piece on the dispute.

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