New York Times May 30, 2011 JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and JOSH KRON JUBA, Sudan — Western diplomats and African leaders are pressing for a new strategy to defuse Sudan’s bitterly contested Abyei area: bringing in Ethiopian peacekeepers as a buffer between opposing forces. According to several Western officials in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, Ethiopia [...]
Category Archives: Sudan
Eritrea opposes South Sudan, Kenya may recognize Somaliland
May 23, 2011 – 7:48 am
Jimma Times, expatriate opposition website May 22, 2011 The Somaliland Press claims that Kenya is preparing to recognize Somaliland’s independence, which would create another new country in the horn of Africa. “Kenyan Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Richard Onyonka said during an event held in Nairobi to commemorate Somaliland’s 20th anniversary of Independence that his [...]
UN Security Council delegation heads to Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya
May 23, 2011 – 7:42 am
Sudan Tribune May 19, 2011 Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – A UN Security Council delegation will travel to countries in East Africa this week on a mission to consult on a range of regional issues and concerns. “The UN Security Council delegation will arrive in Addis Ababa [Ethiopia] on Friday. It will on Saturday have [...]
ICC reports Djibouti to UN over al-Bashir visit
May 14, 2011 – 7:43 am
Washington Examiner, US May 5, 2011 Judges at the International Criminal Court reported the African nation of Djibouti to the United Nations Security Council Thursday for failing to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during an official visit. Judges said media reported that al-Bashir attended the inauguration ceremony of Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh last Sunday. [...]
Ethiopia has no serious problem with Sudan over Nile – official
May 7, 2011 – 10:46 am
Sudan Tribune May 5, 2011 Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – An Ethiopian official said on Wednesday that Sudan has been showing an encouraging interest to cooperate in resolving the long crises over the Nile’s water and is not considered as problem to Ethiopia over the issue. “We don’t have a serious problem with Sudan. We [...]
Ethiopia: Power network links to Sudan, Djibouti finalised
April 28, 2011 – 7:43 am
Sudan Tribune April 26, 2011 Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – As part of the plans to export electric power to neighbouring countries, Ethiopia has completed installation of power transmission lines that stretch to Sudan and Djibouti, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) disclosed on Monday. Ethiopia has an initial agreement to supply 200 megawatts to [...]
Somalia’s al-Shabaab Threatens Attacks in Kenya Over Easter
April 22, 2011 – 1:35 pm
Bloomberg April 22, 2011 Paul Richardson Somalia’s al-Shabaab militia threatened to carry out attacks on Kenyan government buildings, bus terminals and places of worship over the Easter weekend, Kenyan police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said. “We have intelligence reports that they have threatened to strike in Kenya,” Kiraithe said today in a phone interview from Nairobi, [...]
Egypt opposes Ethiopia’s dam construction plan
April 12, 2011 – 6:34 am
Bikya Masr, Egypt April 10, 2011 CAIRO: A delegation of 40 Egyptian representatives visited Kampala to hold talks with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni concerning new plans for the sharing of Nile basin water. The delegation strongly refused to back a recent declaration by Ethiopian Minister of Water and Energy Alemayehu Tegenu to build a mega-hydropower [...]
Ethiopia: We’ll deal with Egypt through Entebbe Nile agreement
April 5, 2011 – 6:46 pm
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/386463, Egypt April 5, 2011 Photographed by Hafez Diab Addis Ababa has announced that it will only deal with Egypt on issues of Nile water quotas through the Cooperative Framework Agreement, which was signed in May 2010 in Entebbe, Uganda. The agreement, also knowns as the Entebbe Framework Agreement, was signed by five upstream states, [...]
Hundreds of groups sign petition against huge Ethiopian dam
April 1, 2011 – 7:36 am
Sudan Tribune March 31, 2011 Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – Some 400 organizations from across the world have signed a petition against the construction of Ethiopia’s multi-billion dollar Gibe III Dam project, Survival International has told Sudan Tribune. In an e-mail exchange Sarah Shenker, researcher at Survival International, said that the petition had been delivered [...]