“The evaluation of the Foreign Ministry and the government is that Zenawi’s visit was overall positive,” Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ambassador Amr Roshdy, told Ahram Online.

Zenawi thanked Prime Minister Essam Sharaf "for helping in opening a new chapter of relations between Egypt and Ethiopia." "We all agree that the Nile is a bridge, it is not a barrier," he told a ...

Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu denied the allegation. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi also condemned the slayings. "It is an outrage," he said at a news conference yesterday.