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 […]
Ethiopia News Agency Ethiopia announced on Wednesday that it would not take part in the February 27-28 scheduled GERD tripartite meeting in Washington because its negotiation team had not been able to complete consultations. Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been conducting extensive discussions or negotiations right from the launch of GERD some years ago. In […]
ENA President Sailework Zewdie is touring the Nile riparian to present Ethiopia’s stand over the GERD. After visiting Uganda she was in Rwandan capital Kigali, where she held discussion with President Paul Kagame on wide range of bilateral issues. The visit is part of the Government of Ethiopia to elucidate its position on Grand Ethiopian […]
Daily Maverick, By ISS Today Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are currently engaged in vital talks over the dispute relating to the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River. While non-African actors are increasingly present in the negotiations, the African Union (AU) is playing a marginal role. In addition to […]
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 […]
Associated Press, By Elias Meseret Associated Press — Ethiopia refuses to be pressured by the United States into signing a deal with Egypt and Sudan over its controversial dam on the Nile River, says Ethiopia’s foreign minister. In an interview with The Associated Press, Gedu Andargachew said the three countries need to resolve their differences […]
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 […]
Bloomberg, By Timothy Kaldas American mediation may help end an acrimonious impasse over a giant dam project. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project has been a source of tension between Cairo and Addis Ababa since construction began in 2011. The Egyptian side insists that the dam violates the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement guaranteeing all waters go to Egypt […]
The conversation, By Meron Teferi Taye, Addis Ababa University, and Ellen Dyer, University of Oxford In July Ethiopians planted 350 million trees in a single day. This was part of the country’s national green legacy initiative to counter environmental degradation and climate change. The initiative ultimately aims to grow 4 billion trees across the country. Ethiopia has long struggled […]
Sudan Tribune By Ermias Hailu After Egypt’s failure to integrate Eritrea to its territories by the end of the second world war, due to Emperor Haile Selassie’s superior diplomatic skills, the then Egyptian Pan- Arab nationalistic President Nasser’s government turned to ethnic and religious subversion against Ethiopia. In 1955 Egypt began working for the instigation […]
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