The East African By MAWAHIB ABDALLATIF Technical teams seeking to end the conflict over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam along the river Nile appeared headed for a major breakthrough as the second round of talks progressed in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday. Observers said Ethiopia and Egypt had ceded ground on their divergent demands and were now […]
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 Herald BY HIZKEL HAILU Solar electricity has clear advantages of inaccessibility, cost, and reliability compared to traditional means of rural electrification. In the mid to long term, solar electricity will also be competitive on the grid. As of 2018, Ethiopia had launched the National Electrification Program which aimed for 65 percent of the population […]
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 […]
The 18th meeting of the tripartite technical committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) started on Saturday in Addis Ababa with the participation of water and irrigation ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, as well as members of the committee. The meetings are set to be held for two days. The meeting was attended by […]
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 […]
Ethiopian Herald A development project lies in the outback of Guba Wereda, in the Metekel Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, less than 40 km from the Sudanese border. It is unfortunate that in Egypt and Sudan, the development project, the GERD, has turned into an epicenter of a political dispute that involved world leaders from […]
Ethiopia is the source of the Blue Nile and contributes over 85 percent of the Nile streamflow. To this day, Egypt and Sudan are using 100 percent of the water, sticking to their 1959 colonial agreement between them not being signatories, Ethiopia and other upstream states do not recognize this agreement. Ethiopia is on the […]
Slate by Joshua Keating The Book of Genesis describes the pharaoh of Egypt having two dreams: one in which he is standing by the Nile and sees seven fat cows devoured by seven thin cows, and one in which he sees seven healthy ears of grain swallowed up by seven thin and blighted ones. When […]
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 […]
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