Nile: Sudanese scholar backs Ethiopian dam
In a rare defiance of Egyptian pressure, to which Sudanese scholars acquiesced to for decades, a renowned legal scholar wrote an op-ed endorsing Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam and the Nile Basin...
View ArticleUN: Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea blame the West for development, climate, UN reform
Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea seized the opportunity to point fingers at the West for the old developmental paradigm, the threats of climate change, and delay in UN reform, respectively, during the 69th...
View ArticleEthiopia: Delayed rains causing "crisis" in Afar, Somali regions
Delayed seasonal rains are causing livestock loss and risk of food shortage in some parts of Ethiopia especially in the Afar and Ethio-Somali Region. Due to under-performance of two consecutive rainy...
View ArticleEthiopia: 7.5 mil need food aid following weak summer rains
The number of Ethiopians in need of relief food aid surged by to 7.5 million, according to the latest assessment released today. This is the second revision since March 2015 when the Joint Government...
View ArticleEthiopia: 8.2 mln people need relief aid, $164 mln urgently needed
Press release: UN Humanitarian Country Team Addis Ababa, 13 October 2015: The Government of Ethiopia announced yesterday, during a meeting with UN agencies, NGOs, and Donor representatives that the...
View ArticleGibe is not Gila: Anti-dam activism gone awry
“Dam on Ethiopia’s Omo River Causing Hunger and Conflict”. That was the tittle of Sandra Postel’s alarming piece on National Geographic. Any sane person would (and should) be upset upon reading...
View ArticleAfDB approves loan for Adama, Adwa, Bichena and Gode water projects
(AfDB) The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 approved a loan of US $76.11 million from the AfDB financing window to the Federal Democratic...
View ArticleHydro-mentality over the Nile
(Wondwosen Michago Seide) The Nile River is the only shared physical linkage between Egypt and Ethiopia. The thread of history has interwoven them along the channels and banks of this river. To an...
View ArticleRenaissance dam and its impact on Ethio-Sudan ties
The relationship between the two neighbors, Ethiopia and Sudan, is an ancient one. The two neighbors share a long border and history in which some of it was spent with glorious achievements while most...
View ArticleSendafa Landfill controversy: The farmers’ version of the story
In the past two weeks, the Sendafa Sanitary Landfill have become the talking point of Addis Ababa. It did not get as much attention even last September when it was inaugurated, touted as Addis Ababa’s...
View Article
