Vol 54 No 17 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Asmara and the Islamists 21st August 2013 Eritrea may be loosening relations with Al Shabaab A July report by the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea claimed that the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice has resumed support to the...
Vol 54 No 13 | EGYPTETHIOPIA Dam and blast it 20th June 2013 Cairo has backed down from threats of war over Ethiopia’s dam on the Nile but has failed to resolve any of the serious environmental issues Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohamed Kamel Amr, was trying to calm tension over the control of the River Nile, after a meeting his Ethiopian counterpart, Tewodros Adhanom, in Addis...
Vol 54 No 13 | EGYPTETHIOPIA The Nile in numbers 20th June 2013 Some 95% of the water that Egypt relies upon comes from the Nile Some 85% of the Nile waters originate in the Ethiopian Highlands, flowing down the Blue Nile and two smaller tributaries. The remaining 15% comes down the White Nile...
Vol 54 No 12 | EGYPTETHIOPIA Gaffes on the Nile 7th June 2013 Such is the level of distrust around President Mohamed Mursi’s beleaguered government that some insiders are convinced his officials deliberately misled opposition politicians about the ‘secrecy’ of...
Vol 54 No 11 | ETHIOPIA Cutting taxmen 24th May 2013 Amid an anti-corruption drive, on 10 May police arrested the Director General of the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority, Melaku Fenta, his deputy, Gebrewahid Woldegiorgis, and 30 others,...
Vol 54 No 8 | ETHIOPIA Toeing the party online 12th April 2013 The government tries to increase access to the internet and mobile telephony while restricting free speech and the media The government has grown more sensitive to dissenters using the internet. Now it is blocking opposition websites and some social media, and using special programmes to spy on...
Vol 54 No 7 | ETHIOPIA ‘With the thoughts of Meles’ 29th March 2013 The EPRDF conference was meant to show unity and quell doubts about the Growth and Transformation Plan Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has been unanimously confirmed as Chairman of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front for another two years. Nothing less was expected from a celebratory...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 11 | ETHIOPIACHINA Beijing will connect your call 3rd September 2013 The government does not want to liberalise the telecommunications sector and has hired Chinese contractors to carry out much-needed improvements On 18 August, the acting Chief Executive Officer of state-owned telecoms operator Ethio Telecom, Andualem Admassie, signed the second of two US$800 million deals that will drastically improve...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 11 | ETHIOPIAINDIA Grab first, drop later 3rd September 2013 Addis Ababa reconsiders policies after India-backed agribusiness projects fail to deliver Ethiopia is rethinking its land policies after the failure by India’s large agribusiness ventures, which have also drawn much criticism from non-governmental organisations, to deliver results.
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | ETHIOPIACHINA Learning from the East 11th February 2013 The World Bank is working with the government so that Addis Ababa can repeat the successful growth model of its Asian trading partner In December 2012, the World Bank published an in-depth study of Chinese investors in Ethiopia. Based on interviews with the executives of 69 companies operating there, the study...