Vol 54 No 22 | ETHIOPIA A dam for all 31st October 2013 Ethiopia might attract Egyptian finance for its vast dam, although many financial and technical hurdles remain Key regional meetings are about to take place on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, probably Africa's biggest-ever development project to be undertaken without grants or concessional finance. After...
Vol 54 No 21 | ETHIOPIA No runner for office 17th October 2013 The governing Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front played it safe by electing Mulatu Teshome Wirtu to the largely ceremonial office of President on 7 October. Mulatu, who once...
Vol 54 No 18 | ETHIOPIA Demos galore 6th September 2013 The opposition Semayawi Party has said it will hold a demonstration on 7 September, having failed to stage a promised public show of opposition to the government in...
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...