UPI
March 10, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda’s
Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.
The region, until recently largely ignored by the energy industry, [...]
Category Archives: Sudan
East Africa is next hot oil zone
March 11, 2010 – 5:43 pm
How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
March 8, 2010 – 3:25 pm
Guardian, UK
March 7, 2010
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
A woman tends vegetables at a giant Saudi-financed farm in Ethiopia.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards [...]
Sudan’s Bashir slams UN sanctions on Eritrea: media
March 6, 2010 – 11:24 am
Reuters
March 6, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has criticized the sanctions imposed on Eritrea last December by the United Nations Security Council, Eritrean local media reported on Saturday.
Bashir paid a one-day working visit on the Red Sea state on Friday during which he held talks with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and attacked the [...]
UN chief asks Ethiopia’s PM to play leading role in Sudan
February 2, 2010 – 9:20 am
Sudan Tribune
February 2, 2010
Tesfa Alem Tekle
(ADDIS ABABA) – Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, who was in Addis Ababa for the 14th African Union Summit on has asked the Ethiopian Prime minister Meles Zenawi to play a crucial role in efforts for peace in Sudan.
(UN)
Ban Ki-Moon converses with Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi [...]
Experts see Eritrea leading regional mining surge
February 1, 2010 – 8:37 am
Reuters
February 1, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – An impending mining boom in Eritrea will challenge oil-rich neighbours to make it easier for foreign companies to prospect across a massive geological structure in the region rich in base metals and gold, analysts say.
Eritrea set the government’s stake in any mining project at 10 percent stake in 2008 with [...]
Ethiopia must play a leading role on Nile
January 28, 2010 – 10:22 am
Reporter, Ethiopia
January 23, 2010
Although the ten-year-old “Nile Basin Initiative” established by the Nile Basin courtiers has produced some tangible results in terms of forging co-operation between the riparian countries, the main co-operation framework agreement has still not been agreed upon and ratified.
Egypt and Sudan want the colonial treaty that they signed with the United [...]
Around 100 refugees infiltrate eastern Sudan on daily basis
January 19, 2010 – 12:19 pm
Sudan Tribune
January 19, 2010
January 18, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Around one hundred refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia infiltrate Sudan every day through the eastern border, said a Sudanese official on Sunday.
Children at the Wad Sharifey refugee camp in eastern Sudan, home to 15,020 mostly Eritrean refugees (photo IRIN)
Last month the Africa Bureau Director of the [...]
Sudan, Ethiopia renew fuel supply deal
January 17, 2010 – 8:42 am
Reporter, Ethiopia
January 16, 2010
Hayal Alemayehu
Sudan Petroleum raises supply
Ethiopia and Sudan last week renewed the benzene supply agreement they entered into five years ago before the initial deal expired, it was learnt.
Sudan has, pursuant to the initial agreement, been supplying eighty percent of Ethiopia’s benzene consumption, the balance being imported from the Middle East and other [...]
Eritrea disappointed with Sudan over its silence on arms embargo
January 17, 2010 – 8:39 am
Sudan Tribune
January 15, 2010
January 14 2009 (KHARTOUM) – The President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, rapped Sudan over its lack of support in the run-up to the imposition of an arms embargo on the country last month. He was speaking in an interview with Sudanese media, during which he otherwise emphasized strong relations between the two [...]
Ethiopia inaugurates 420 MW hydropower project
January 14, 2010 – 7:56 am
APA
January 13, 2010
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia on Wednesday inaugurated a 420 MW hydro electric power project-Gilgel Gibe II built at a cost of approximately 323 million euro.
The inauguration was attended by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and visiting Italian Foreign affairs minister, Franco Frattini. According to Ethiopian electric Power corporation (EEPCo), the new hydro-power station [...]
