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DIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP · 2026

Ethiopia → Egypt

This score represents Ethiopia's relationship toward Egypt. The reverse direction is calculated separately and shown alongside it.

ETH → EGY+5Mixed74% evidence confidenceBroad sourced evidence
EGY → ETH+5MixedSymmetric current scores
SIX-COMPONENT MODEL

Current component scores

Component values run from −100 to +100 and are combined with the published weights.

Security0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not activate an additional frozen security rule for the 2015 baseline.

Diplomacy-15

1 documented factor produce the -15 diplomacy assessment.

Why this score?
  1. -15GERD dispute remains unresolved
    Active event · 2025

    Egypt's formal Security Council communication objected to unilateral dam measures and called for a binding agreement, documenting continuing bilateral friction despite the 2015 guardrail.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not activate an additional frozen bilateral diplomatic rule for the 2015 baseline.

Economic0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: Reporter-side 2015 goods trade does not reach a frozen material-trade threshold, or is unavailable, and no reviewed standing agreement activates another rule.

Alignment+55

3 documented factors produce the +55 alignment assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +10Shared African Union framework
    Baseline rule · 2015

    Egypt and the counterpart participated in the African Union's standing continental cooperation framework in 2015.

  2. +30United Nations voting alignment
    Baseline rule · 2015

    A rolling three-year comparison of UN General Assembly votes activates the alignment threshold.

  3. +15Egypt and Ethiopia join BRICS
    Active event · 2024

    Their accessions created an additional standing multilateral policy-coordination framework.

Disputes-5

2 documented factors produce the -5 disputes assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +15GERD Declaration of Principles
    Baseline rule · 2015

    Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed principles for cooperation, data exchange, peaceful dispute settlement and negotiation over the dam in March 2015.

  2. -20GERD dispute remains unresolved
    Active event · 2025

    Egypt's formal Security Council communication objected to unilateral dam measures and called for a binding agreement, documenting continuing bilateral friction despite the 2015 guardrail.

Societal0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not establish the exceptional or strong exchange required by a frozen societal rule.

CHANGE SINCE 2015

+9 in 2015 → +5 in 2026

The change is generated from sourced events and frozen scoring rules, not retrospective editorial adjustment.

ACTIVE EVIDENCE

Events affecting the current score

-6

GERD dispute remains unresolved

Egypt's formal Security Council communication objected to unilateral dam measures and called for a binding agreement, documenting continuing bilateral friction despite the 2015 guardrail.

+2

Egypt and Ethiopia join BRICS

Their accessions created an additional standing multilateral policy-coordination framework.

Interpret with care

This analytical score is not an objective fact, endorsement or prediction. Confidence reflects evidence coverage, while incomplete or unavailable observations remain explicit. Differences below 5 points are treated as practical ties rather than a meaningful ranking.

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