Ethiopia can’t fill in Renaissance Dam reservoir until studies are finished: Egyptian Minster

Ahram Online Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed on Tuesday on a new French firm which will study the impact of the controversial dam on water shares for Nile basin countries Egypt’s irrigation minister said the Khartoum agreement that was reached on Tuesday between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the Grand Renaissance Dam prevents the latter

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French companies tapped to study Nile dam project

Egyptian FM Sameh Shoukri (L) shakes the hand of Ethiopian FM Tedros Adhanom (R) alongside Sudanese FM Ibrahim Ghandour after signing an agreement following talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project, in Khartoum on December 29, 2015. Two French engineering companies were chosen Tuesday to carry out environmental impact studies on Ethiopia’s planned Grand

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Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan sign new Grand Renaissance Dam agreement

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan signed an agreement on Tuesday finalizing the two firms tasked with carrying out studies on the potential impact of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam on the flow of the Nile, their foreign and water ministers said. The three countries had initially picked French firm BRL and

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Ethiopia Agreed Not To Use Any Water From The Nile To Fill The Dam

Egyptian Streets On March 23, 2015, Egypt’s President Sisi, Sudan’s President Al-Bashir and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Desalegn signed a preliminary deal to end the water crisis. Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have signed an agreement aimed at curbing Egypt’s alarm at the speed of which the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (‘the dam’) is being constructed. The

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Ethiopia Agreed Not To Use Any Water From The Nile To Fill The Dam

Egyptian Streets On March 23, 2015, Egypt’s President Sisi, Sudan’s President Al-Bashir and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Desalegn signed a preliminary deal to end the water crisis. Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have signed an agreement aimed at curbing Egypt’s alarm at the speed of which the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (‘the dam’) is being constructed. The

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Ethiopia: Why Resist the Addis Abeba Master Plan? – A Constitutional Legal Exploration

By Tsegaye R. Ararssa When in mid April 2014 the government in Ethiopia announced its readiness to implement what it called the “Addis Abeba Integrated Regional Development Plan” (the “Master Plan” for short), which proposes to annex most of the city’s surrounding areas belonging to the National Regional State of Oromia, it provoked an immediate

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Ethiopian Christians Go Underground to Celebrate Christmas

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast ROME — It has been more than 30 years since that old rocker Bob Geldof launched the charity initiative Band Aid for famine in Ethiopia with the poignant tune, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Since then, it would seem from afar, Ethiopia has hovered on the edge of

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Ethiopia: 80 Killed in Protests Against Land Plan

By Elias Meseret, Associated Press Ethiopian government forces have killed more than 80 people in the past four weeks in protests in the country’s Oromia region, an Ethiopian opposition party charged Wednesday. The killings should be investigated, said the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Unity Forum, a coalition of four opposition parties, at a press conference. “Trigger-happy

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Blood and terror in Ethiopia as protests sweep the streets

By Justine Boulo, AFP People in Wolenkomi, some 60km west of Ethiopia capital Addis Ababa stand on December 15, 2015 near the body of a protester from Ethiopia Oromo group allegedly shot dead by security forces Wolenkomi, Ethiopia (AFP) – Two lifeless bodies lay on the ground as the terrified crowd, armed only with sticks

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UN : Somalia is No longer a failed state

AP Somalia is no longer a failed state but a recovering fragile country, the top U.N. official for war-torn Somalia has said. In the last three years the country has stabilized but there is still a lot of work to do, Nicholas Kay, the outgoing representative for the U.N. Secretary General in Somalia, told The

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