By Habtamu Abay Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 2013 Introductory background UN sources indicate that the population of the world in general and that of the developing countries in particular is increasing at an alarmingrate. Due to the advent of modern…
By Marthe van der Wolf VOA News ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia and Egypt have been in a diplomatic dispute for weeks over the construction of what will be Africa’s largest hydro-electric dam – impacting the waters of the Nile River. But…
AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Distance running great Haile Gebrselassie is entering politics and may now run for president of Ethiopia — even if his wife is not sure it’s a good idea. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and multiple…
By Li Lianxing New partnership aims to remove obstacles to foreign investment in promising African nation Ethiopia is attracting significant Chinese foreign direct investment, but has still been lagging in overall FDI. However, an official from the World Bank says…
Update – August 5, 2013: Click link – 40/60 Condo Registration to Start on August 12, 2013 Addis Ababa City Administration to register new Condominium house Seekers May 11, 2013 Addis Ababa City Administration and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia announced a…
By Tsegaye Tegenu, PhD Email: tsegaye.tegenu@epmc.se Introduction On July 5, 2013 the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia announced that the Ethiopian population has reached 86 million people. Seizing the occasion I would like to warn about the consequences of exponential…
Image: Africa’s tallest tower planned to rise 99 stories in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by 2017. Ethiopia Aims To Host Africa’s Tallest Building by 2017 By Shem Oirere Source: Engineering News Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, may boast Africa’s tallest building by…
Reuters Ethiopia’s economy is expected to maintain a growth rate of 11 percent in 2013/14 with plans to upgrade infrastructure given prominence in its annual budget, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said on Thursday. The Horn of Africa nation has in…
Photo: Henok Assefa, CEO at Precise Consult in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopia’s Investment Prospects The June 2013 issue of African Review of Economics and Finance contains a study titled “Ethiopia’s Investment Prospects: A Sectoral Overview” by Henok Assefa, Derk Bienen…
Ethiopians living in three cities, Kitchener, Waterloo and Guelph organized a big fund-raising for Hedasse Dam On June 29,2013, Ethiopians living in three cities, Kitchener, Waterloo and Guelph organized a big fund-raising party that attracted so many friendly people. It…
Embassy launch of worldwide access to ancient first book printed in Ge’ez Five hundred years ago this week (30th June), the first ever book was printed in the ancient Semitic language of Ge’ez, the foundation of languages spoken in Ethiopia…
By Parselelo Kantai in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Meles will be a hard act to follow, but Desalegn should not be underrated. As foreign minister he played a pivotal role in the peace talks between Sudan and South Sudan. A s…
By Addis Alem There had always been charismatic Ethiopian leaders who are loved and revered by all Ethiopians, almost as if they were mythical figures right out of the holy books: Tewodros agitating to modernize the newly unified nation, igniting…
J. Peter Pham, director of the Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, testified on 20 June 2013 before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Human Rights and International Organizations on the topic “Ethiopia after Meles: The…
Asfaw Beyene, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at San Diego State University, published an informative commentary titled “Reflections on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.” The focus is on the engineering…
By: Memar Ayalew Demeke, 17 June 2013 The Nile river, being international and trans-boundary in nature, has been the subject of various agreements. However, there is no internationally agreed up on treaty on the management and utilization of the Nile…
By Desta B. Sbhatu June 16, 2013 … “Egypt will not sign the agreement unless [certain] points of contention are modified.” Al-Din said. The points of contention, for Egypt, include that Egypt be given a decision making position in the…
The International Panel of Experts commissioned to report on the impact of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has handed its findings to the governments of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. It has produced a lengthy, detailed and technical report after…
Photo: Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency (Addis Ababa) http://www.ertagov.com/news/ June 13, 2013 President Yoweri Museveni has sternly warned the Egyptian “government and other groups” against making “chauvinist and irrational statements” in the wake of Ethiopia’s…
Ambassador Tesfaye Habisso President Mursi & Co., Be Careful What You Wish for Ethiopia and the Renaissance Dam [GERD] “With nine million Ethiopians in need of food aid [every year] and rains in the country becoming ever more unreliable, the…
By Entehabu Berhe June 2013 Starting May 28, 2013, the Blue Nile (Abay) has taken a brief detour, of less than a kilometer, from its regular path to pave a way for the construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam…
A Storm in a Teacup “I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story. I don’t think the Egyptians will be any different and I think they…
Ethiopians in Diaspora have been working harder than ever to raise funds for the GERD project. Following the footsteps of other cities in North America and else where, Ethiopians residing in the greater Portland area have successfully raised the funds….
By KARIUKI MUIRI, Karatina June 10 2013 Ethiopia has dared Egypt to war if the Arab nation attempts to carry out hostile activities to prevent the Blue Nile hydro-power project from being concluded. The 6,000MW Grand Renaissance Dam was conceived…
Photo: Rakeb Abebe, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, GAWT International Business PLC Ethiopia By Katrina Manson in Addis Ababa Three banks rejected Tekeste Berhan Habtu for a loan to help build his 11-storey office block. Undeterred, the 59-year-old Ethiopian businessman…
Image: Author Charles Onyango-Obbo By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO cobbo@ke.nationmedia.com twitter: @cobbo3 June 5, 2013 Kenya could soon be in for a shock. Why? Well, with a new government that is still taking shape, the country is understandably preoccupied with domestic affairs….
AfriSynergy The average elevation of Ethiopia is very high and the lakes and water is up very high, unlike Egypt and Sudan. This makes Ethiopia ideal for dams for producing electrical power. There are radicals and some racists within Egypt…
Photo: Sudanese information minister and government spokesperson Ahmed Bilal Osman confirmed his governments support for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam A rare disagreement between the Sudan and Egypt over “the possible impact of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam” unveiled on Thursday….
International Legal Perspectives on the Utilization of Trans-Boundary Rivers – The Case of the Ethiopian Renaissance (Nile) Dam By Habtamu Alebachew, Mekelle University, College of Law and Governance Ethiopia Paper Presented to the Ninth IUCN Colloquium, North West University of…
By: Memar Ayalew Demeke The politics of the Nile is full of tension, mistrust, anxiety, mystery and diplomatic confrontation among the downstream and upstream riparian countries since time immemorial. The basin has never seen cooperation until recent times. However, there…
Editor’s note: Much of the reporting in the past week on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, under construction on the Blue Nile, has been inflammatory and misinformed. However, the report below is a balanced report we have seen so far coming out…
Ethiopians living in Switzerland have raised over 100, 000.00 Swiss Franc for the Grand Renaissance Dam Ethiopians living in Switzerland have raised over 100, 000.00 Swiss Franc about $105630.00 USA dollars for the Grand Renaissance Dam in a very successful…
Egyptian politicians caught plotting how to attack Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Unaware their meeting has been aired live on TV the Egyptian politicians were suggesting how to sabotage or attack the Ethiopian dam. The emergency meeting was called by…
Egypt in the past has threatened to go to war over its ‘historic rights’ to Nile River water Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – June 3, 2013 — An independent panel of experts has concluded that the country’s multi-billion dollar hydropower dam…
London, UK – June 3, 2013 — Ethiopians in the UK rededicated themselves to supporting the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) at the 22nd anniversary of May 28 when the Dergue regime fell and new vistas for…
By WACHIRA KANG’ARU – wkangaru@ke.nationmedia.com AND FRANCIS MUREITHI – fmureithi@ke.nationmedia.com June 3 2013 IN SUMMARY The High Grand Falls Dam is part of the Sh1.5 trillion Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (Lapsset), which was officially launched in…
By Alsir Sidahmed June 2, 2013 The short-lived row that erupted last week on the announcement that Ethiopia has started changing the course of the Blue Nile is the most tangible move to construct the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam…
By Habtamu Abay Email: abay_habtamu@yahoo.com Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 1, 2013 — If one is interested to hold the attention of Ethiopians, Egyptians and the Sudanese at the same time, a single dose of one “drug” is just enough for…
Photo: General Mohamed Ali Bilal, retired General Mohamed Ali Bilal, commander of Egyptian forces during the Gulf war, said that it is “impossible” to strike the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam because such a decision would be issuing a challenge to the…
Government Perspective May 30, 2013 The Nile basin countries are sleeping giants. They are endowed with substantial human and physical assets which, combined with proper financial and technological resources, have the potential to spur high levels of economic growth and…
By Habtamu Alebachew Bye, Bye Perceptions and Zero-Sum Games, Welcome Reasons and Dialogues!! Ethiopia announced its successful diversion in the flow of Abay River (not in the course of the river as some media people wrongly use the term without…
By Blen Tilahun It was only 2 decades ago that the world was worried that Ethiopia could end-up in a chaotic disintegration and lawlessness of seen in Yugoslavia and Somalia. Just 10 years ago, many were skeptic of Ethiopia’s development…
May 30, 2013 The River Nile has been a source of life for millions over the centuries. Now Ethiopia is diverting water to build a giant dam pushing those downstream who depend on the river, to wonder when and whether…
Photo: An Ethiopian Orthodox Priest talking on a mobile phone By Katrina Manson Addis Ababa, May 27, 2013 — Ethiopia’s new prime minister has ruled out loosening state control of key businesses, dealing a blow to foreign investors circling one…
By Terefe Masresha Since Ethiopia started building a large dam on the Nile River, it has been at the receiving end of a barrage of disinformation and mixed messages aimed at discouraging, frustrating and halting the construction. This means putting…
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, May 28, 2013 – (Reuters) – Ethiopia began diverting a stretch of the Nile on Tuesday to make way for a $4.7 billion hydroelectric dam that is worrying downstream countries dependent on the world’s longest…
Egypt’s Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Idrees described Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam as a “reality” that Egypt must cope with and added that his country’s goal in its ongoing dialogue with Ethiopia is not to shut down the project, but to find…
By William Davison May 27, 2013 Ethiopia is in talks to receive $1 billion in funding from the Brazilian Development Bank to build a section of a railway that will be extended to connect to neighboring South Sudan, a Foreign…
The late PM Meles Zenawi gave this interview to the Egyptian TV in 2011. Who really owns the Nile river? Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia or other East African countries? Take your time and watch these four videos. PM Meles Zenawi was…
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