Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Ol Karia geothermal power plant in Kenya. PHOTO | FILE Energy experts are pushing for increased investment in renewable energy by East African countries in order to increase electricity supply and decrease overreliance on hydropower. In a report published recently, University of California’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (Rael) and environmental group International Rivers recommend […]

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From Foreign Affairs By Harry Verhoeven APRIL 12, 2015 Construction workers in a section of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, March 31, 2015.(Tiksa Negeri / Reuters) In 1991, as the Cold War drew to an end, the only African country that had never been colonized by European imperialists was but a pale reflection of the Great Ethiopia […]

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Addis Ababa, 5 April 2015 (WIC) – Ethiopians residing in Somaliland have been contributing for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam since the project has come to implementation in 2011. Brigadier General Berhe addressing the participants of the celebration of the 4th anniversary of the founding of Ethiopian Grand renaissance Dam in Somaliland, Hargessa, Ethiopian community […]

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April 1, 2015-Ahram reports today that the Egyptian and Ethiopian irrigation ministers will announce next week in Addis Ababa the consultant firm that will carry out new water and environmental studies on the 74 billion cubic meter reservoir on the Nile’s largest tributary. Ethiopia’s irrigation Minister has invited his Egyptian counterpart to travel to Addis […]

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Amy Copley | March 27, 2015 2:46pm An agreement to peacefully share the waters of the Nile River is signed On Monday of this week, leaders from Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia signed a landmark agreement to peacefully share the waters of the Nile River. The pact was significant given that tensions between the nations have been high since Ethiopia […]

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By: ATHAN TASHOBYA PUBLISHED: March 31, 2015 For decades, the Nile River basin has been marred with conflicts over the usage of Africa’s longest river. The conflicts have pitted the two lower stream countries of Egypt and Sudan against the upstream Nile Basin countries. The conflicts began with the signing of the 1929 and 1959 colonial water […]

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Addis Ababa, 31 March 2015 (WIC) - Ethiopia will develop a secondary market in government and corporate bonds next fiscal year to expand the country’s fundraising options, a central bank official said. The National Bank of Ethiopia will create the market in the year ending July 7, 2016, Yohannes Ayalew, vice governor of monetary stability, said […]

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  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s planned new airport on the outskirts of the capital is still years from becoming a reality, but Tewodros Dawit can currently envision how grand it will look. “The airport we are planning to develop is going to be huge. Very substantial,” Tewodros mentioned one recent afternoon as he examined project […]

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REPORT Egypt and Ethiopia make peace over a hugely controversial Nile dam. And Cairo’s about-face has everything to do with security. The mounting security concerns that have Egypt poised to send ground troops into Yemen also seem to have pushed Cairo into making nice with Ethiopia after years of tensions over the construction of a massive dam […]

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Addis Ababa, 26 March 2015 (WIC) - The United States has welcomed the initial agreement signed by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan for resolving disputes over Nile River water shares, deeming it “an important step forward” Speaking to the press on Wednesday, US State Department spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said her country looks forward to “working with the […]

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