Insight : The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will Change Ethiopia (Video)
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will bring a grand change for Ethiopia and Ethiopians. 5000 workers from 20 nationalities and 24 hours none stop of work are speeding up the construction of the dam. Fully financed by the Ethiopian people…
The Renaissance Dam Proof of Competence
By Hanan Ali Ethiopia has always had the wits for good foreign policy. This is manifested by the fact that Ethiopia got the diplomatic support of the international community, particularly South Sudan, Sudan and most likely Egypt, states that at…
Ethiopian-Canadians in the Greater Vancouver Area to Throw a Fundraising Party in Support of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) Project
Fundraising Event to take place on Saturday August 24, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Axum Ethiopian Restaurant in Vancouver, BC VANCOUVER, BC – August 6, 2013 — Ethiopian-Canadians residing in the greater Vancouver area will be having a fundraising event on…
Al Jazeera Reports on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (Video)
Photo: Alemayehu Tegenu, Ethiopia’s minister of Water and Energy Al Jazeera on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam – Video For thousands of years, the Nile River has provided for the people living along its banks. For Ethiopia, this is the key…
Nile Power Shifts Away From Egypt
by David Arnold July 15, 2013 Before the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi was ousted as president earlier this month, his government was planning to catch up on overdue negotiations with nine upstream neighbors in the Nile River Basin to salvage the…
Egyptian Professors Stuck in Pseudo-Science at the Age of Nile Cooperation
Hailu Simon (PhD) July 16, 2013 There were signs of progress in the past week. The Ethiopian Prime Minister re-assured Egypt in his public remark saying: “We are committed to continuing peaceful and mutually beneficial relations with the Egyptian people,…
Ethiopia Continues The Renaissance Dam Construction (Video)
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…
Why Ethiopia Rejected the Validity of 1929 and 1959 Agreements?
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
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 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…
President Mursi and Compamy – Be Careful What You Wish for Ethiopia and the Great Renaissance Dam
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”
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
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 Portland, Oregon, Raise $60,000 USD for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
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….
Time the Region Called Egypt’s Bluff and Build Dams to Lower Energy Cost
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…
Analysis of Late Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi’s Comments on Egypt and Waters of Nile (Video)
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…
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 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?
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…
Nile Dams – Egypt, Ethiopia, Look for Safe Ground
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 Raise Over $105,000 USD for the Grand Renaissance Dam
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 (Video)
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
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…
Ethiopians Rededicate Support for Renaissance Dam at May 28 Celebrations in London
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…
Clouds over the Nile
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
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…
Shared Destiny Tied by the Gift of the Nile
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
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…
Inside Story – Death on the Nile – Al Jazeera Video
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…
Ethiopia: Dispelling the Curse of the Nile
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…
Ethiopia Diverts Nile for Huge $4.7 Billion Hydro Dam (Video)
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…
Egyptian Ambassador: Ethiopia Dam “a Reality” to Cope with
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…
Renaissance Dam’s Unnoticed Impact on Ethiopian Psyche
By Merkeb Negash “The humiliation of a thing is sufficient to stimulate it; the humiliation of a country is sufficient to rejuvenate it” - Book of Rites (Chinese literature) When the late prime minister came up with the idea of building…
“No Matter How Poor We Are, Ethiopians Will Pay Any Sacrifice,” – Meles Zenawi
Photo: The construction of the grand renaissance dam is well underway By Hasset Assefa Two solid years have already elapsed since Ethiopia launched the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam (GRD). When the news was first declared to the public…
Ethiopians in NY Raised $100,000 for the Renaissance Dam Project
Photo: Downtown New York City ETHIOPIANS IN NEW YORK MOBILIZE MORE THAN $100,000 FOR THE ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE DAM A truly inspirational evening of the Ethiopian Renaissance Day was organized in New York on 11 May 2013 by the Ethiopian Renaissance…
Ethiopia – Kenya High Voltage Power Transmission Lines to Start in September 2013
By Macharia Kamau Kenya-Ethiopia Electricity Line Gets $338 Million USD Boost The construction of a high voltage electricity line running between Ethiopia and Kenya can now begin after the African Development Bank (AfDB) agreed to fund the project to the…
Ethiopians in Chicago Raised Over $60,000 USD for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Photo: Partial view of Downtown Chicago By Tsehaye Debalkew Patriotic Ethiopians in Chicago, Illinois undertook a successful Fund Raising Event for the Grand Renaissance Dam Patriotic Ethiopians and Ethiopian- Americans residing in and around Greater Chicago undertook a resounding fund…
Ethiopians in San Diego Raised $43,160 USD for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Photo: Partial view of Downtown San Diego By Tibebe Solomon Abera San Diego In our effort of supporting the Renaissance Dam, sons and daughter of Ethiopia and Ethiopian origins in San Diego have gathered at the East African Community and…
China Lends Ethiopia $1 Billion USD for Mega-dam Power Lines
By Aaron Maasho Reuters ADDIS ABABA, April 27, 2013 – Ethiopia secured a $1 billion loan from China on Friday to build transmission lines linking its capital Addis Ababa with Africa’s biggest hydropower dam being built on the Nile. Ethiopia…
Will Egypt Escape the 19th Century Mindset and Meet Ethiopia Halfway?
By Bayelegn Yergu “The Egyptians have yet to make up their minds as to whether they want to live in the 21st or the 19th century.” (Meles Zenawi – Nov. 2010) Everyone who followed the Nile river politics knows that…
Ethiopians in Houston, TX, Held a Successful Fund Raising Event for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
Photo: Downtown Houston, Texas, USA By Tsehaye Debalkew April 17, 2013 Patriotic Ethiopians and Ethiopian- Americans residing in and around Houston Metropolitan Area launched a triumphant fund raising event by purchasing bonds a process that has been going on throughout…
Ethiopian-Canadians in the Greater Vancouver Area Raised Around $80,000 USD in Bond Purchases and Donations for the Construction of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
Photo: Downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be the biggest dam in Africa and the 13th in the world, and will cost about $5 Billion USD, and is expected to be completed in 2015 VANCOUVER, BC, April…
One More Grand Reason to Support Ethiopia Build its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
By Adal Isaw adalisaw@yahoo.com April 3, 2013 You may call this a grandiose claim, but one more grand reason to support Ethiopia build its Grand Renaissance Dam is tacitly embedded within the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Many states have signed…
Deputy PM Demeke Mekonnen Says GERD Construction Reaching Decisive Stage
Addis Ababa, April 1, 2013 –(WIC)– Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Demeke Mekonnen said on Saturday the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) started by the Great Leader Meles Zenawi would be realized by public participation….
DeNial is Not a River
By Entehabu Berhe, PhD March 21, 2013 DeNial is Not a River For some, the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile (Abay) continues to be a source of controversy and insecurity. For Ethiopia, however,…
South Sudan Rejects the Colonial Nile Waters Agreement
By MACHEL AMOS in Juba, South Sudan March 20, 2013 Juba Rebuffs Cairo on Nile Waters Agreements South Sudan has expressed its opposition to a 1959 Nile Water agreements between Sudan and Egypt. The country said it was already on…
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) Construction Commencement to be Marked
Addis Ababa, March 20, 2013 (WIC) – Office of the National Council for the Coordination of Public Participation on the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam said the 2nd anniversary of the commencement of the Dam’s construction is to be…
The Hostile Campaign against GERD: More Old Wine in New Bottles
Various media outlets have released negative reports concerning the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) over the past weeks. As usual, the comments on the impact of the Dam on downstream countries as well as on financial issues…
Grand Renaissance Dam Official Website Launched
By Mulugeta Kussa Office Launches Official Website for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Addis Ababa, March 13, 2013 – (WIC)– The Office of National Council for the Coordination of Public Participation on the Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)…
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi Speech on Launching GERD (Text and Videos)
The speech made by the late PM Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia at the official commencement, groundbreaking ceremony of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project. Translated from Amharic April 02, 2011 Guba, Benishangul Gumuz Honorable peoples of Ethiopia First and…
Ethiopia’s Strategic Resolve to Building the Grand Renaissance Dam
By Tsehaye Debalkew, Washington D.C February 23, 2013 The win-win strategy that resonated in the wake of the triumphant culmination of the entourage of a high-caliber Egyptian Public Diplomatic Mission to Ethiopia some two years ago immediately after the historic…
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