By William Davison : Bloomberg Ethiopia may face further power shortages because of low water levels at dams after a poor rainy season, an official said, following two days of sporadic cuts caused by technical faults at hydropower plants. Unspecified issues at a substation serving Oromia region’s Gibe 1 and 2 plants, which together can
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By William Davison : Bloomberg Ethiopia may face further power shortages because of low water levels at dams after a poor rainy season, an official said, following two days of sporadic cuts caused by technical faults at hydropower plants. Unspecified issues at a substation serving Oromia region’s Gibe 1 and 2 plants, which together can
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By Nick Turse, Naked Capitalism In the shadows of what was once called the “dark continent,” a scramble has come and gone. If you heard nothing about it, that was by design. But look hard enough and — north to south, east to west — you’ll find the fruits of that effort: a network of
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Evidence of the severity of this year’s drought is the unusual presence of camel carcasses, which are normally an extremely hardy animal well-suited to this environment. (Photo: Kyle Degraw) Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: John Graham, Save the Children’s Ethiopia Country Director This is no ordinary year in Ethiopia; this is a ‘code
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Evidence of the severity of this year’s drought is the unusual presence of camel carcasses, which are normally an extremely hardy animal well-suited to this environment. (Photo: Kyle Degraw) Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: John Graham, Save the Children’s Ethiopia Country Director This is no ordinary year in Ethiopia; this is a ‘code
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By Addis Getachew, AA ADDIS ABABA, Ethopia – The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that climate change is threatening to exacerbate health problems in Ethiopia. The WHO released details in its Climate and Health Country Profile 2015 on Tuesday. “Increased temperatures, intense heat waves, more extreme rainfall, floods and landslides, are expected to intensify
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By Addis Getachew, AA ADDIS ABABA, Ethopia – The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that climate change is threatening to exacerbate health problems in Ethiopia. The WHO released details in its Climate and Health Country Profile 2015 on Tuesday. “Increased temperatures, intense heat waves, more extreme rainfall, floods and landslides, are expected to intensify
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Hailemedehin Abera Tagegn,Ethiopian Plane’s Co Pilot who hijacked and took the aircraft to Geneva seeking asylum. Swiss Info A psychiatric evaluation has revealed that the co-pilot who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight and re-routed it to Geneva in 2014 was not of sound mind when he did so. As a result, the Swiss Attorney General
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Hailemedehin Abera Tagegn,Ethiopian Plane’s Co Pilot who hijacked and took the aircraft to Geneva seeking asylum. Swiss Info A psychiatric evaluation has revealed that the co-pilot who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight and re-routed it to Geneva in 2014 was not of sound mind when he did so. As a result, the Swiss Attorney General
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BBC News Ethiopia is suffering its worst drought in 30 years, but the country is better equipped to cope than the crisis in 1984, writes the BBC’s Clive Myrie, who has visited one of the worst affected areas. It is a hard-scrabble life being a farmer in northern Ethiopia. Normal years are tough. In some
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