The Ethiopian Herald “Ethiopia is a country that navigated the tide of time with a firm belief on God the Almighty as well as the unity and perseverance of its people. Though some tried to dictate to it too much giving it too little the country never relied on such quarters. It always relies on […]
AFP, by Robbie COREY-BOULET Metekel (Ethiopia) (AFP) – Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centres bereft of modern equipment, a dependence on flashlights after sundown — Kafule Yigzaw experienced all these struggles and more growing up without electricity in rural Ethiopia. So five years ago, he leapt at the chance to work on a project […]
The three nations are locked in a dispute about the vast dam being constructed across the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, the source of 85% of Egypt’s water. That Egypt’s economic well-being is dependent on the Nile has been a geopolitical fact of life since ancient times. Fly over the country, and Egypt’s dependence on the […]
Ethiopia’s position on the exploitation of the Nile River, reiterated before the United Nations by President Sahle-Work Zewde, who occupies this Friday prominent spaces in several media. We firmly believe that the use of the basin will be based on principles of equitable and reasonable management of natural resources, without causing irreversible damage to the […]
The World Bank has suspended the $500 million it had pledged for Ethiopia as emergency financial support. Local media reported that the Bank cited two reasons to suspend financial support; the first was the country’s sluggish effort to improve its currency exchange rate against the dollar. Both the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) […]
Ethiopia News Agency Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said filling the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will begin this coming rainy season, and urged all Ethiopians to fully implement the preventive measures in order to fight Corona virus. In his message to the Ethiopian people in connection with the 9th anniversary of Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the […]
Anadolu Agency, by Seleshi Tessema For the last 12 years, around four days a week, when the light appears over the skies of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Tsehay Wulo, 55, ascends to Entoto, a forested mountain north of the capital. Throughout the week, hundreds of impoverished young and old women roam the eucalyptus forest […]
Eye-watering budgets, extreme complexity, staggering scale and far-reaching impacts: meet the world’s most impressive megaprojects. Narrated by Fred Mills. Additional footage and images courtesy of Yamanashi Prefectural Linear Tour Center, ITER, Crown Resorts, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tiksa Negerib, HOK, Studio ORD, Google Earth, Skidmore Owings + Merrill, Alex Greenberg, Gioia Forster, Eko Atlantic, Zerihun […]
Ethiopian Press Agency Honorable Peoples of Ethiopia, ladies and gentlemen, today marks the day of the announcement of the long-awaited coming great news, a watershed in the course of our years of toiling. This is a historic day that the first filling of the GERD has come to a completion. I would like to congratulate […]
Info Nile By Jenny Kwon In Bahir Dar, surrounded by clusters of paintbrushes, buckets and vivid paintings hanging on his studio walls, Eyayu Genet begins sketching his latest idea on the broad canvas beneath him. With only a black marker in hand, he lays out his vision: covering the bottom is water, symbolizing the Blue Nile River […]
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