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Why Ethiopia Rejected the Validity of 1929 and 1959 Agreements?

Why Ethiopia Rejected the Validity of 1929 and 1959 Agreements?

June 17, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Towards Searching for Workable Options for Egypt to Deal with New Realities

Towards Searching for Workable Options for Egypt to Deal with New Realities

June 16, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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’ Report on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

The International Panel of Experts’ Report on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

June 15, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Uganda`s President Museveni Says: Africa Won’t Let Egyptians Bully Ethiopia

Uganda`s President Museveni Says: Africa Won’t Let Egyptians Bully Ethiopia

June 14, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

President Mursi and Compamy – Be Careful What You Wish for Ethiopia and the Great Renaissance Dam

President Mursi and Compamy – Be Careful What You Wish for Ethiopia and the Great Renaissance Dam

June 14, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

The Not So Quite Nile “Diplomacy”

The Not So Quite Nile “Diplomacy”

June 13, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

If the Only Tool you Have is a Hammer, you Tend to See Every Problem as a Nail

If the Only Tool you Have is a Hammer, you Tend to See Every Problem as a Nail

June 12, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Why Kenya Needs to Heed Belligerent Noises from both Egypt and Ethiopia

Why Kenya Needs to Heed Belligerent Noises from both Egypt and Ethiopia

June 8, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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….

Analysis of Late Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi’s Comments on Egypt and Waters of Nile (Video)

Analysis of Late Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi’s Comments on Egypt and Waters of Nile (Video)

June 8, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi, Videos

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…

Sudan Stands by Ethiopia on Dam Project

Sudan Stands by Ethiopia on Dam Project

June 8, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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

International Legal Perspectives on the Utilization of Trans-Boundary Rivers – The Case of the Ethiopian Renaissance (Nile) Dam

June 7, 2013 · by Meles · in Articles, Meles Zenawi

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…

Egyptian Approaches to the New Developments in the Nile Politics: Water Diplomacy or Water War? Which Way?

Egyptian Approaches to the New Developments in the Nile Politics: Water Diplomacy or Water War? Which Way?

June 7, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Egyptian Politicians Caught Plotting How to Attack Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Video)

Egyptian Politicians Caught Plotting How to Attack Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Video)

June 4, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi, Videos

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…

Panel Report: Ethiopia’s Nile Dam won’t Affect Egypt

Panel Report: Ethiopia’s Nile Dam won’t Affect Egypt

June 3, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Clouds over the Nile

Clouds over the Nile

June 2, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

The Sensational News of “Diversion” of Blue Nile River

The Sensational News of “Diversion” of Blue Nile River

June 1, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Retired Commander of Egyptian Forces General Mohamed Ali Bilal, Said that it is Impossible to Strike the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Retired Commander of Egyptian Forces General Mohamed Ali Bilal, Said that it is Impossible to Strike the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

May 31, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi, Videos

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…

Shared Destiny Tied by the Gift of the Nile

Shared Destiny Tied by the Gift of the Nile

May 31, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Diplomatic Implications of Diverting the Flow of Nile River by Ethiopia

Diplomatic Implications of Diverting the Flow of Nile River by Ethiopia

May 31, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Ethiopia: Dispelling the Curse of the Nile

Ethiopia: Dispelling the Curse of the Nile

May 29, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Egyptian Ambassador: Ethiopia Dam “a Reality” to Cope with

Egyptian Ambassador: Ethiopia Dam “a Reality” to Cope with

May 28, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

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…

Egyptian TV Interviews Meles Zenawi on Nile River and the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Videos)

Egyptian TV Interviews Meles Zenawi on Nile River and the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Videos)

May 26, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi, Videos

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…

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

February 17, 2013 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

By ANDREW CARLSON Editor’s Note: Egypt and Sudan are utterly dependent on the waters of the Nile River. Over the past century both of these desert countries have built several dams and reservoirs, hoping to limit the ravages of droughts…

Land of the Pharaohs on the Edge

Land of the Pharaohs on the Edge

February 10, 2013 · by Meles · in Articles, Meles Zenawi

By Bruh Yihunbelay Feb. 09, 2013 Ever since the ousting of the former president, Hosni Mubarak, one of the world’s oldest civilizations, Egypt, has faced bitter clashes and political instability with no quick solutions at hand. With that being the…

Nile Basin Report Disregards Ethiopia, Egypt Tension over Hydropower

Nile Basin Report Disregards Ethiopia, Egypt Tension over Hydropower

December 10, 2012 · by Meles · in Articles, Meles Zenawi

By Merga Yonas Dec. 08, 2012 The first State of the River Nile Basin 2012 report overlooked the competing water use conflicts and political risks stirring between Ethiopia and Egypt, mainly on the earlier project of the Great Renaissance Dam…

Ethiopia is Driving to Complete its Massive $4.8 Billion USD Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile

Ethiopia is Driving to Complete its Massive $4.8 Billion USD Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile

December 2, 2012 · by Meles · in Articles, Meles Zenawi

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Nov. 30, 2012 — (UPI) — Ethiopia is driving to complete its massive $4.8 billion Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile amid a long-running dispute with Egypt that will likely worsen in the months ahead unless…

LA Times Article Over Nile Water Sparks Anger in Ethiopia

LA Times Article Over Nile Water Sparks Anger in Ethiopia

November 15, 2012 · by Meles · in Meles Zenawi

By Mohammad Awad | 14 November 2012 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia is a proud country. A country that doesn’t like foreign, especially, colonial interference in its local affairs. The Nile River is one of those areas that across the board late Prime Minister…

New Book on Nile Says Water War is Unlikely

New Book on Nile Says Water War is Unlikely

November 13, 2012 · by Meles · in Articles, Meles Zenawi

By Merga Yonas Nov. 10, 2012 A new book titled “Nile River Basin: Water, Agriculture, Governance and Livelihoods” argues that the risk of a water war is secondary, saying that the poor should have a fair and easy access to…

Is Egypt about to Bomb Ethiopian Dams?

Is Egypt about to Bomb Ethiopian Dams?

November 8, 2012 · by Meles · in Articles, Meles Zenawi

By Abel Abate October 31, 2012 As experts from Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt met to discuss an under-construction Ethiopian hydropower project, a Wikileaks report stated that Cairo authorities reached an agreement with Khartoum to build an airbase in Sudan, to…

Wikileaks: Egypt was Planning to Bomb the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam, Using Sudan as a Launchpad

Wikileaks: Egypt was Planning to Bomb the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam, Using Sudan as a Launchpad

October 22, 2012 · by Meles · in Articles, Meles Zenawi

Ethiopia has been working harder than ever to build Africa’s largest dam for the past couple of years. The project is on schedule to be completed by 2017. Will this Meles Zenawi’s dream of building such a huge dam be…

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Born: May 8, 1955, Adwa, Tigrai, Ethiopia
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