Stratfor Report: Ethiopia Identified among Post China Sixteen (PC16) Contries
Editor’s Note: The 16 countries identified in this study that could potentially succeed China are as follows: Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania America’s: Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, and Dominican Republic Asia: Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Laos, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, and…
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…
Why Kenya Needs to Heed Belligerent Noises from both Egypt and Ethiopia
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….
Coming Soon: Kenya’s Largest Fresh Water Dam on River Tana
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…
The Nile Basin States: The Need for Genuine Cooperation
Image: Nile Riparian States By Selamu Misgan Around the world there are over 260 trans boundary rivers that flow through two or more countries. To resolve the difficulties and disputes that inevitably arise, states have set up different forms of…
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…
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…
Samsung to set up Laptop, Printer Assembly Plant in Ethiopia
By Tamiru Tsige Samsung comes up with new technology that makes decoders obsolete March 15, 2013 — The South Korean multinational conglomerate and technology company Samsung has finalized a deal with the Ethiopian government to set up a plant that…
Embracing Africa’s Economic Potential (Videos)
U.S. Senator Chris Coons Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs March 7, 2013 Recommendations for Strengthening Trade Relationships Between the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from Senator Coons Executive Summary Detailed Examination of Recommendations…
Toyota Launches $4.9m Assembly Plant In Kenya
Japan’s largest automaker Toyota, Tuesday launched a Sh500 million ($4.9 million USD) truck and bus assembly plant and showroom in Kenya in a move to steal market dominance from competitor, Ford. Kazuhiko Wanabe, GM Hino Motors – the of the…
Kenya Vision 2030
Feb. 09, 2013 What will Kenya look like in 20130 (some 17 years from now)? No body can predict for sure how Kenya or any other African nation will look like in 17 years from now, but there is a…
Kenya Plans Road Show to Ethiopia Capital
By GRIFFINS OMWENGA gomwenga@ke.nationmedia.com January 15, 2013 Ministry of Foreign Affairs caravan to carry Kenyan goods on the way to Addis Ababa and vise-versa in bid to boost trade The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and private sector firms are planning…
Ethiopia’s Hydropower Projects Attracting Global Financiers
Addis Ababa, January 9, 2013 – (WIC) — Performance of Ethiopia’s hydropower projects is attracting world’s leading financiers as the projects are interconnecting regional electric power grids, FBC quoted Chief Executive Officer of EEPCo, Mihiret Debebe as saying. According to Mihiret,…
Ethiopia Deal Signals Cheaper Power in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 5 – Lower energy costs are on the horizon for Kenyan consumers, after the government secured a Sh37.5 billion ($441 million) credit agreement to import cheaper electricity from Ethiopia. Once the 1,045 kilometre transmission power line between…
Ethiopia and kenya Sign Trade Pacts
East Africa Business Week Nov. 27, 2012 Addis and Nairobi Sign Trade Pacts Trade ties between Kenya and Ethiopia could strengthen further in light of an aggressive marketing campaign driven by newly installed Ethiopian Prime Minister Ato Hailemariam Desalegn. Just…
Ethiopia Opens up as PM Hailemariam Desalegn Visits Kenya
By Peterson Thiong’o, The EastAfrican November 24, 2012 IN SUMMARY Four months after the death of Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia is opening up to foreign investors after years of its seemingly closed door policy. Addis’s strategy is said to be shifting from…
Kenya: Private Sector Applauds Special Status Agreement with Ethiopia
BY BETTY MAINA 25 NOVEMBER 2012 OPINION Kenya’s business community has expressed their appreciation and welcome the signing of the Special Status Agreement by His Excellency, Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and His Excellency President…
Ethiopia’s PM Hailemariam Desalegn Aggressively Markets Ethiopia
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 22 – Taking the helm of one of Africa’s fastest growing non-oil economies after a predecessor as influential and at times controversial as Meles Zenawi, is indisputably a daunting task. However, Mr. Hailemariam Desalegn now the Ethiopian…
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