By Alemayehu G Mariam April 21, 2014 Last week, in a bizarre display of faux outrage and indignation, the regime in Ethiopia unleashed its big “experts” to go afterInternational Rivers, an organization that has been leading the global struggle to…
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21 April 2014 Al Jazeera While construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam continues apace, downstream neighbour Egypt is crying foul. In the three years since construction began on the 1.8km Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam across the Blue Nile River, Egypt…
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21 April 2014 Somaliland Press Egypt is threatening Sudan’s safety by blocking international loans for Ethiopia’s hydro-dam, said Sudan’s top official of Eastern Blue Nile State Hussein Ahmad. According to the Sudanese mp, cash-strapped Ethiopia will end up shortcutting the…
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21 April 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abune Mathias has indefinitely postponed a visit he was scheduled to pay to Cairo on Friday upon a request from the Egyptian Orthodox Church, a source…
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Ethiopia’s ‘logic’ behind the construction of the Renaissance Dam is shocking, perhaps even more so than the issue of the dam itself By Ahmed El-Sayed Al-Naggar , Ahram Online Addis Ababa is either unaware of such a thing as international…
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20 April 2014 Turkish Press ADDIS ABABA – A Sudanese governor has said that an Ethiopian dam project on the Nile River, which has been the source of tension with Egypt, will benefit Sudan. “The dam will contribute share in…
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19 April 2014 Reporter WRITTEN BY WUDINEH ZENEBE The completion of the Gibe III hydropower project scheduled to start production for September 2014 will not be realized as the dam is not ready to harvest water in the coming rainy…
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Ahram Online 18 Apr 2014 Egypt’s irrigation ministry said it was about to conclude studies on the construction of a new dam in Africa’s newest state, South Sudan, as part of Egyptian aid pledged to the war-torn country. All the…
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18 April 2014 By: Lori Pottinger International Rivers GERD is being built in Ethiopia near the Sudan border International Rivers has been caught in the crossfirebetween Ethiopia and Egypt as they struggle over a large dam being built on the Nile…
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18 April 2014 Panapress Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has admitted “a serious dilemma” over the fate of Field Marshall Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who is running for Egypt’s Presidency after ousting former President Mohammed Morsi last year.…
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