IN DIPLOMACY:

Negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have yet to yield any tangible results or progress, but Egypt is “looking forward” to restarting the African Union-mediated talks, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told his Finnish counterpart Pekka Haavisto in a phone call yesterday. The last round of trilateral talks on GERD last month failed to make any headway on the impasse, with Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia leaving the negotiating table without an agreement on how to even proceed with the discussions.

The Egyptian and Spanish navies have conducted drills at the Berenice naval base on the Red Sea, the Armed Forces said in a statement yesterday.

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