Reuters September 2, 2010 Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia on Thursday rejected criticism of its massive hydropower dam projects and vowed to push ahead with plans to boost its power generating ability from 2,000 MW to 10,000 MW within five years. The Horn of Africa nation’s ambitious dam building programme has drawn fire from [...]
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Ethiopia petroleum import to rise by 13 % in coming years
August 28, 2010 – 11:39 am
APA August 27, 2010 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia’s petroleum import will rise by around 13 per cent in the coming years, forcing the country to spend annually around US$ 1.8 billion, the Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (EPE) said here on Friday. The Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise said that the country imported around 2.8 billion litres (2.5 millions [...]
Arab League, African Union agree to hold meeting over Somalia
August 28, 2010 – 11:34 am
APA August 27, 2010 Cairo (Egypt) – The Arab League and the African Union have agreed on Thursday to soon hold an inter-organisation meeting between the Arab League ,the African Union, the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to deal with the situation in Somalia and coordinate their efforts to restore peace [...]
The long road of death, massacre in Sinai
August 19, 2010 – 10:50 am
Jerusalem Post, Israel August 18, 2010 Seth J. Frantzman The Egyptian territory has become a human prison for African migrants. They are hung from trees by metal chains attached to their arms and provided with plastic bags to collect their urine to drink when they are thirsty. They are gang raped, tortured with electricity and [...]
Police fear higher Sinai migrant death toll
August 16, 2010 – 11:51 pm
Reuters August 15, 2010 * Migrants were being held for ransom * More bodies to be discovered, source says ISMAILIA, Egypt – Smugglers may have killed as many as 10 African migrants in an armed battle near the Egyptian-Israeli border last week and dozens more could be lost in the desert, Egyptian security sources said [...]
Egypt extends olive branch in Nile river row
July 28, 2010 – 11:38 pm
Reuters July 26, 2010 Barry Malone * Egypt PM says “no strategic differences” over Nile waters * Meeting of heads of state by November KAMPALA – Egypt sounded a conciliatory note on Monday in a dispute over how Nile waters should be shared by the countries it passes through at an African summit in the [...]
E.Africa in drive to develop neglected drylands
July 24, 2010 – 7:09 am
AFP July 23, 2010 NAIROBI — A broad initiative to develop East Africa’s drylands — where living conditions are among the toughest on the planet — was launched Friday by renowned US economist Jeffrey Sachs and regional bodies. “Under the Drylands Initiative, thousands of pastoralists who have historically been neglected will benefit from animal production, [...]
IGAD defense staff gather in Ethiopia on Somali issue
July 20, 2010 – 7:37 am
APA July 19, 2010 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Chief of defense staff and military experts from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Monday begin a three day forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss new troop contributions for Somalia. The on-going closed session is being held in the presence of chiefs of defense staff and [...]
Does Egypt Own The Nile?
July 20, 2010 – 7:33 am
e360/Yale University,US A Battle Over Precious Water A dispute between Egypt and upstream African nations has brought to the fore a long-standing controversy over who has rights to the waters of the Nile. The outcome could have profound consequences for the ecological health of the river and for one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands. [...]
Somalia: The peacekeeping contingent might rise to 20,000
July 16, 2010 – 11:10 am
African Bulletin, Netherlands July 16, 2010 The size of the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will be increased from 4,300 to 20,000 troops, Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has announced at a news conference. This increase would be discussed at the next summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), comprising Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, [...]
