By William Davison, Bloomberg Ethiopia and Egypt “urgently” need to agree on the coordinated operation of their two large dams in the Nile River basin to ensure water is shared fairly during periods of reduced flows, a group of international experts said. Ethiopia is planning to complete the $4 billion state-funded Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, known…
The Guardian Natnael Feleke has been imprisoned for a year without trial. In a letter smuggled out of jail, he asks the US secretary of state to stop supporting the regime For one year Atnaf Berahane, Mahlet Fantahun, Zelalem Kiberet, Befeqadu Hailu, Natnael Feleke, Abel Wabela, have been imprisoned in Ethiopia. Photograph: Global Voices …
Report from conference at MIT addresses potential effects of huge construction project. By David L. Chandler | MIT News GERD Executive Summary MIT_NILE_GERD_BRIEF_FINAL Comments from Ethiopian and Egyptian expert panels According to present plans, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) — now under construction across the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia — will be the largest hydroelectric dam…
BY SIOBHÁN O’GRADY, Foreign Policy The United States for years has praised Ethiopia’s fight against terrorism in East Africa, but that hard-line approach to extreme Islamism may have contributed to the bloody execution of dozens of Ethiopian Christians who were targeted by the Islamic State in Libya. Addis Ababa has been long consumed with a bigger…
Why it’s time for East Africa’s big success story to change the way it does business. BY ROBERT LOONEY, Foreign Policy Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia’s famine regularly made the news. Gruesome accounts of up to a million deaths stemming from drought and civil war captured the attention of aid agencies, sympathetic governments, and humanitarian groups…
Quartz The attacks on migrant shop owners in Durban this week reminds us the position of foreigner in South Africa is a complex one. After decades of isolation from the rest of the African continent, and the world, during apartheid, South Africa finally opened up to the rest of world in 1994. Under apartheid, South…
By Lerato Mbele BBC Africa Business Report, Addis Ababa Whenever we set up our camera and flapped open our sun reflectors in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, passers-by became curious and eager to help. But getting them to talk on camera was another matter as in general residents of the city are reticent and keep their views to…
By: Bazi Bussuri Sheikh Water is said to hit humans at a profoundly different level than other resources. Water experts argue that people are willing to do horrible things to each other, but they do not willingly turn off each other’s water. Water knows no political boundaries. Water, unlike land, is hard to “capture”, it…
By Fekadu Bekele (PhD) What does Adowa mean for Ethiopians and the rest of Africa? What is left from the Victory of Adowa? What do we owe our patriotic mothers and fathers who saved Ethiopia from Colonial Domination? Introduction To write an article on such a major issue might seem too late. Many have written…
Africa Cradle 1. South Africa South Africa is the only African country that is a member of the G20 and BRICS (the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa grouping), and the only African country of the EU’s 10 global strategic partners. This is mainly because South Africa is the EU’s largest trading partner in Africa…