Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Construction work is shown in June 2013, at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, near Assosa in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, near Sudan. The dam will have the capacity to produce 6,000 megawatts of electricity and become the biggest hydroelectric power station in Africa.ELIAS ASMARE, ASSOCIATED PRESS By TOM CAMPBELL / Staff columnist The greatest […]

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From Egypt Daily News Egypt is not worried about GERD, and is using any means available to reach an agreement, says FM Ahmed Abbas   Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said the Ethiopian president affirmed his country’s commitment to the declaration of principles for on the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), previously signed by the […]

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CHRISTINE MUNGAI The planned airport would be larger than Heathrow, and aimed to serve as many as 120 million passengers a year when it opens in a decade’s time. US TV and radio host Billy Bush (L) with Ethiopian dancers onstage during the imagine1day Visionary Leadership Dinner on October 29, 2015 in California. Ethiopia says […]

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  The Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric power project began power generation on Saturday (October 10). The Dam, highest Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) dam in Africa at 243m, will have a total installed capacity of 1,870mw. This will increase Ethiopia’s power generation capacity by 234% according to Alemayehu Tegenu, Cabinet Affairs Minister, and former Minister of […]

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  (EBC, 15 October 2015) - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will begin generating 750 MW power from its two turbines soon, Dr Debretsion Gebremichael, Deputy Prime Minister for Finance and Economic Cluster and Minister of Communications and Information Technology said. The construction of the dam has now reached 47 per cent as 4 […]

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Egypt, Sudan And Ethiopia Sign Agreement On Renaissance Dam In Khartoum - YOUM7 By THE CAIRO POST CAIRO: Sudan and Ethiopia have requested Egypt to convene the 9th round of their tripartite meetings to late October to talk the issue of a consultation firm for evaluating the impact of the under-construction Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), stated […]

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Addis Ababa, 19 August 2015 (WIC) - Egypt’s Minister of Irrigation, Hossam Moghazi, said on Monday the tripartite committee for Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam will meet on 20 and 21 August in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. The committee will discuss the latest developments regarding the undelivered foreign consultancy firms’ report on […]

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Construction workers are seen in a section of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, as it undergoes construction, in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Guba Woreda, Ethiopia, March 31, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri) Egyptian-Ethiopian disputes stall Renaissance Dam CAIRO — Studies analyzing the effects of the proposed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam were due six months ago, but the […]

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Addis Ababa, 3 July 2015 (WIC) – The meetings of a tripartite national committee kicked off in Cairo Wednesday 1/7/2015 with all its 12 experts from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia present to probe technical offers made by two international consultancy offices regarding the impact of the Renaissance Dam on the downstream countries. Meetings over three days […]

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Addis Ababa, 27 June 2015 (WIC) – Ethiopia is considered as one of the fastest growing economies in the world today, a far cry from 30 years ago when the East African country was hit by a severe famine. But how much has changed since the famine. Every so often, a speaker at a conference says […]

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