By Getachew Begashaw Part II: A Critical assessment of building large dams In Part I of this piece, we highlighted the requirements for an appropriately planned, designed, constructed and operated dam on Abay, the Blue Nile, and why it is in the national interest to do so, provided it is executed not for a short-term political and economic
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World Bulletin/News Desk A planned visit by Egypt’s newly-inaugurated President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to Ethiopia has generated mixed reactions in the African country. “I am optimistic that al-Sisi’s visit will be the beginning to communicate,” Dr. Gebremedhin Simon, Professor of School of Journalism and Communication at Addis Ababa University, told Anadolu Agency on Saturday. Ethiopia announced
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By Pierre Crabitès Foreign Affairs October 1929 THE Egyptian Gazette of May 9, 1929, carried the text of an agreement on the long-debated question as to the use of the waters of the River Nile. The agreement, which recognizes on the one hand.that the Sudan needs more water for its development, and on the other hand that
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World Bulletin Kuwait’s Ambassador in Addis Ababa on Thursday said that his country made efforts to ensure that a suspension of Egypt’s African Union (A.U.) activities would be reserved. “The efforts Kuwait makes to ensure that this suspension is lifted boil down to Egypt’s importance and its role in the pan-African body, Rashed Faleh al-Hajri
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World Bulletin/News Desk The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it had noticed a shift in Egypt’s stance regarding its multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam, currently being built on the Nile’s upper reaches, which Cairo has long feared would reduce its traditional share of water. “Egyptians have begun to show willingness… to resolve the Nile water dispute
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By Ramadan Al Sherbini Gulf News Cairo: Egypt and Ethiopia are making serious efforts to defuse tensions that have marred the two African countries’ relations for more than a year, experts said. Egypt’s new President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi signalled a thaw in ties with Addis Ababa earlier this week when he said in an
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Egypt State Information Service Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom said President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Prime Minister Hailemarian Desalign would hold a summit meeting in Malapo, Equatorial Guinea, within two weeks to launch a new chapter of relations between the two countries. The Ethiopian top diplomat said there is an agreement between the two
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By Getachew Begashaw (PhD)* June 12, 2014 Part I: Economic and Political Backdrop Most Ethiopians agree that appropriately planned, designed, constructed, and operated dams on Abay (the Blue Nile) are economic necessities that should be supported to ensure the long-term economic development of the country and the well-being of its people. It is an incontrovertible
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By Nael M Shama Ahram Online Although Egypt is a political powerhouse in the Middle East, its foreign policy hardly reflects that. Under its longtime president Hosni Mubarak, Egypt receded into a long phase of quietism and withdrawal. Mubarak is gone, but “Mubarakism without Mubarak” has persisted, even under the short-lived rule of Islamist president
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World Bulletin / News Desk Sudanese Vice President Bekri Hassan Saleh has reaffirmed his country’s support for Ethiopia’s multibillion dam construction project, Ethiopian television reported on Tuesday. “Sudan will derive multiple benefits from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project,” Saleh said at a meeting with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. Saleh had arrived to the
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