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 […]
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 […]
TLDR News This one is going to be about Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which you might have guessed a big dam being built in Ethiopia. you might be wondering, why we making a video on Ethiopia dam . Because it is causing some political strain Between Ethiopia and Egypt, and it might trigger a […]
Daily Mail Last week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s press secretary took a break from official statements to post something different to her Twitter feed: a 37-line poem defending her country’s massive dam on the Blue Nile River. “My mothers seek respite/From years of abject poverty/Their sons a bright future/And the right to pursue prosperity,” […]
The massive Ethiopian dam is a flash point for tensions in Africa—and is now sowing confusion and discord within the U.S. government, with many officials concerned Washington is too much in Egypt’s corner. Foreign Policy BY ROBBIE GRAMER The Trump administration is weighing withholding some aid to Ethiopia over a Nile dam project that has severely strained […]
Ethiopian Herald “Inflexibility” is the cardinal defining attribute of Egyptian negotiating parties though they presented what was expounded with their accomplices. Their inability to adapt to a contemporary reality has been manifesting over and over again in the successive technical talks, proving the utter defeat they suffer in the diplomatic front. Egyptian parties become an […]
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) […]
The World News by Tegist Chernet For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction. – Marcel Proust – As the construction work on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam […]
Sudan Tribune By Abera AT Abera, a student of Political Science and International relations, political sociology, hydro politics and political psychology argues that the main hindrance to a balanced agreement on the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) radiates from deeply rooted state-level psychological apprehensions. Responding to an Egyptian Political Psychoanalyst, Dr Azza Hashem, AT Abera […]
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 […]
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